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A digital artist imagines how the Ryabushinsky mansion might look in Europe
The Ryabushinsky Mansion, had it lived in Europe. The building is imaginary, created by a digital artist
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Thomas Theodor Heine painted “Puppy Siegfried” in 1921
Siegfried the Puppy. 1921. Thomas Theodor Heine (1867-1948)
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Population and Population Density of the Roman and Mongol Empires Compared with Europe and Russia Today
The Roman Empire and the Mongol Empire at their height. The maximum population of the Roman Empire was around 75 million, or 20 people per square kilometre. The Mongol Empire at its peak reached 100 million, or around 3 people per square kilometre. Today the population density of Europe is
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Portrait of Felix Yusupov
Portrait of Felix Yusupov. Artist: Johannes Linse, 1920s
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Queen Mary and the future King Charles III, her great-grandson, little Charles
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Man in pince-nez, white dress uniform and plumed helmet in the second half of the 20th century
Tell me, am I the only one who thinks the Governor of Bermuda in the early 1960s, Major-General Sir Julian Gascoigne, in old-fashioned full-dress uniform and pith helmet, looks like the chief antagonist of the first Jumanji film, the demented hunter Van P. And do not forget
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Albrecht Dürer
Albrecht Dürer. Clear off this instant, or I shall fetch the constable. 1510
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The Times: General de Gaulle's Grandson Backs Putin and Blames the United States
Architecture · Moscow · Observations
Tribune Tower in Chicago, a neo-Gothic skyscraper of the 1920s, converted into apartments
If only all skyscrapers looked even half as impressive and majestic as the Tribune Tower in Chicago, Illinois. The neo-Gothic tower was built in the 1920s and is the most emblematic building in Chicago. These days the skyscraper has been converted into residential apartments. It must be said that
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Might one ask Coca-Cola to bring back the 1899 bottle?
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Gustave Courbet's The Origin of the World in Your Kitchen
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Guido Reni's painting of Atalanta and Hippomenes and the myth of their transformation into lions
Take to Your Heels, You Fool! Guido Reni. Atalanta and Hippomenes, 1622-1625. The picture is based on the myth of the beautiful Atalanta, who invited the men who fell in love with her to run away from her, and entirely unarmed at that. She herself pursued them with a