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Belgian artist James Ensor and the skeletons in his paintings
Skeletons fighting over a smoked herring and over a hanged man, skeletons admiring chinoiserie, skeletons warming themselves, and skeletons painting pictures. Meet the Belgian artist James Ensor (1860-1949)
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Impromptu, Frank Leopold, 2015
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The White Cat
The White Cat. Pierre Bonnard
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Zhirinovsky's favourite teacher Serafima Nikonova and the graduates of 1964
Vladimir Zhirinovsky with the class of 1964. The elderly lady in the photograph is Zhirinovsky's favourite teacher, Serafima Filatovna Nikonova. Vladimir Volfovich spoke of her repeatedly in his interviews, even quite late ones, when he was already advanced in years, saying that he remembered her as a highly
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School No. 25 in Alma-Ata, whose graduates include Zhirinovsky and Tokayev
Zhirinovsky's School. The legendary School No. 25 in Alma-Ata, from which Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky graduated. In those years it was Secondary School No. 25 named after Dzerzhinsky, with a language bias (once the school named after Comrade Yezhov, directly opposite the KGB building). One of the city&
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Pope Francis's Patek Philippe gift turned out to be an April Fools' joke
Pope Francis was recently photographed in a Patek Philippe Tiffany Blue, just like Leonardo DiCaprio's. The watch, issued to mark 170 years of collaboration between Tiffany and Patek Philippe, was, so the legend went, a gift to the Pontiff from the watch house; in the end it turned
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A Peasant Woman Hauling Firewood in Winter
A Peasant Woman Hauling Firewood in Winter. Giovanni Segantini. 1890
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Ingrid Bergman with her twin daughters, Isotta and Isabella Rossellini
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Death of Pope John Paul II on 2 April 2005 and his canonisation in 2014
On 2 April 2005 Pope John Paul II died. His pontificate was one of the longest in history. In 2014 John Paul II was canonised
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Goya's etching "There Is No Time Now"
Goya's etching "There Is No Time Now". How did life become so terrible?
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Don't Panic!
German Surrealist Edgar Ende, painting The Burning Flag, 1934