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I wonder how people can find any interest in new books, when all the charm of life lies in old books and manuscripts alone!
A caricature of the Moscow collector Alexey Bakhrushin
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Work by the British artist John Lines, born in 1938
The Boy with the Chips. The British artist John Lines (b. 1938)
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Napoleon, at about 168 cm, was taller than the average Frenchman and the average soldier, taller than his marshal André Masséna, than Admiral Nelson, Beethoven, Robespierre and Nicolas Sarkozy, and yet he remains in history a ruler of diminutive stature
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Napoleon's Height in English Caricature and in Data on the French of His Time
Napoleon thought highly of his own portrait by Jacques-Louis David, which commemorates his Alpine victory at the Battle of Marengo, and ordered three copies of the canvas. What could better serve to strengthen Bonaparte's reputation than the image of a dashing horseman, his hair streaming in the
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French Aristocratic Fashion of the Eighteenth Century
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Fried Potatoes
Fried potatoes. British artist Eric Satchwell (1926-2012)
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Human Relations
Human relations. 1932 American photographer William Mortensen (1897-1965)
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Robert Heaton patented a typewriter for musical notation in 1936
A typewriter for music. Patented in 1936 by Robert Heaton
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A 111-Year-Old Heartthrob 🤍
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The Pushkin Museum turns 111 as director Elizaveta Likhacheva invites guests to celebrate
To the country's finest museum, our dear and beloved Pushkin Museum, 111 years old today. Yelizaveta Likhacheva, Director of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, invites you to celebrate this great anniversary
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Here's Paul I, and I have nothing to add
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The Prophet Jonah and the Whale
The Prophet Jonah and the whale. By Tommaso di Antonio Finiguerra, an artist of the early Italian Renaissance and the Florentine school. It is curious that, in place of a whale, Finiguerra drew the heraldic dolphin of Florence, enlarged to improbable dimensions. As for the likelihood of surviving inside the