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If the Housing and Utilities Service Is Not in the Pay of the Forces of Evil, How Is One to Explain This?
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The map that records every documented tornado in the history of the United States
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Viktor Vasnetsov's 1920 work showing a woman in historical dress at a window
The Tsarevna Who Would Not Laugh. Viktor Vasnetsov, 1920
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Academician Abich resigned from the Academy in 1865 over his work on the geological map of the Caucasus
On the Probity of Scholars. In November 1865 Academician Abich asked to be released from the Academy and renounced the title of full member, since at that time he was unable to attend the Academy's sessions and to bear the duties of a member of the conference on
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The Magdeburg Unicorn: A Famous Chimera of the Seventeenth Century
The Magdeburg Unicorn is a famous chimera of the seventeenth century. In 1663 this reconstruction of the supposed appearance of its owner was made from bones found in the mountains. The author of the unicorn hypothesis was the physicist, engineer and burgomaster of Magdeburg, Otto von Guericke. A hundred years
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Maya Plisetskaya at the dacha
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Salman Rushdie as a Child in Bombay
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Three black shark fins rising above a wheat field
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Please Do Not Feed the Sharks!
Not far from Dublin, a pensioner has put up a notice warning against the feeding of sharks beside a wheat field teeming with shark fins. Anne Melady, a 75-year-old nurse, admits that she borrowed the idea from a landowner acquaintance. What matters most to her is that those
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Lawrence's portrait of seven-year-old Charles Lambton and the suit changed from yellow to red
The Red Boy, or Portrait of Charles William Lambton, 1825, Thomas Lawrence. Charles William Lambton, heir to a barony and an ancient family castle, lived only 13 years; tuberculosis cut him down. In the portrait the boy is seven. A canvas by so celebrated an artist and academician cost a
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