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Friday Evening Be Like
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Truth and Mercy, Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, 1745
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On 4 November 1956 Soviet troops entered Hungary to suppress the uprising against the communist government that had begun in October
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Statuette of a Bear as a Hunter from the Inverted World Series, 1580/81, Vienna
When Someone Makes Advances on Your Beehive. Bear in the guise of a hunter, 1580/81. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna A figurine from the World Turned Upside Down series.
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I am certain the Good Lord is sending some sign by lighting up the House on the Embankment like this
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London's City Gates, 1741
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The English ballerina Margot Fonteyn (1919-1991) in an evening gown eighteen years her senior
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A Kiss Beneath an Umbrella, by the Czech Artist Luděk Marold, 1895
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Damascus, 1677
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The Cretan Labyrinth in a fifteenth-century Florentine engraving is, unexpectedly, shown as a building with very high walls
The Cretan Labyrinth in a fifteenth-century Florentine engraving is, unexpectedly, shown as a building with very high walls. The Minotaur himself does not appear in Tommaso Ginuera's engraving; he is understood to be somewhere inside
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Alexander I’s biscuits in “War and Peace” and Vyazemsky’s objections to the episode
The phrase “If they have no bread, let them eat cake!” was pinned on the unfortunate Marie Antoinette. The original goes back to a text by Rousseau. But the Russian Emperor Alexander I also found himself entangled in an unpleasant story, when he threw biscuits to the crowd, and people