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Has everyone found Vera Mukhina's Worker and Kolkhoz Woman?
Painting by the French artist André Devambez, "The Paris World's Fair of 1937, View from the Eiffel Tower"
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John I the Posthumous, King of France, lived five days in November 1316
John I was King of France for just five days in November 1316, from birth to death. He entered history under the name of John the Posthumous
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Arnold Böcklin’s painting “War”, created in 1896
Arnold Böcklin. War. 1896
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Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came every one from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him an
Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came every one from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to
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Self-Portrait of Horace Vernet in His Studio in Rome after His Return from a Journey through North Africa, 1835
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Vasily Polenov in a November 1905 letter to his brother's wife on the belated reforms
"The present situation is grievous, chiefly by reason of the same unceasing lies and deceit from top to bottom. At the summit, the Petersburg court rabble consists of predators and idiots, and around it there is a gang of plunderers. All the reforms that the government is now granting
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Thomas Schweicker (1540 - 1602) was an artist who had no hands
Thomas Schweicker (1540 - 1602) was an artist who had no hands. He worked sitting on the floor, holding a sheet of paper steady with one foot and guiding the pen with the other
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Cat armour in the photo is the work of Canadian artist Jeff de Boer
The Canadian artist Jeff de Boer is best known for making stylised armour for cats and mice. The very pieces shown in the photographs. Though the images of the armour are often passed off as photographs of a genuine historical artefact rather than the work of a contemporary artist
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“I recall one peculiar literary evening, staged by the Futurists at the Polytechnic Museum
“I recall one peculiar literary evening, staged by the Futurists at the Polytechnic Museum. The literary evening was presided over by two Futurists: David Burliuk and Vasily Kamensky (...) To scandalise the bourgeois, the Futurists pulled off the following trick: David Burliuk was proclaimed the father of Russian Futurism, and Vasily
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442 years ago Francis Drake completed his circumnavigation of the globe, which I wish for you too
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A Teacher and His Students from the "Summa de potestate ecclesiastica" by the Italian Theologian Augustinus of Ancona
A teacher and his students from the "Summa de potestate ecclesiastica" by the Italian theologian Augustinus of Ancona. Those with a keen eye will have noticed that the tables with benches in this illustration of the fifteenth century bear a suspicious resemblance to the celebrated Erismann desks, invented
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In the ancient Indian collection of moral instruction, the "Panchatantra", there is a tale of a man who, fleeing a mad camel, leaps into a well where a dragon lies in wait; it turns out that the stones on which he might set his foot are guarded by snakes;
The moral of the parable is that the pulse of life is felt precisely at the moment when a man is escaping certain death and discovers beneath him an infernal abyss, when every element of existence undermines the footing beneath his feet, and the time by which he might cling