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Paul Joseph Jamin's 1882 painting of the death of Prince Napoleon
The Death of Prince Napoléon. Paul Joseph Jamin, 1882
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Coronation of Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953 and her coronation portrait
What a beauty Elizabeth II is in this coronation portrait. On 2 June 1953, 68 years ago, she was crowned.
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Mansfield News-Journal reported in 1963 on a pocket telephone of the future
In the future you will be able to carry a telephone in your pocket. A prediction from 1963
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The Slavic household spirit that brought wealth, hatched from a black hen's egg
In principle, anyone at all might hatch from such an egg. The Slavs, for instance, had a deity of sorts: a house spirit and enricher that served people entangled with sorcery and brought them riches taken from other people. It was called the shkryatok, the khovanets or the rarasek, it
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Large oval sculpture of bark and hay in a museum hall
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At Garage, Natalia Turnova's Egg and Stone Have Been Installed, and They Can Be Viewed for Free, Since They Are Displayed in the Museum Foyer
At Garage, Natalia Turnova's Egg and Stone have been installed, and they can be viewed for free, since they are displayed in the museum foyer. The idols will last until 22 August and will most likely be destroyed, which is a pity, as I would gladly have installed
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Revelation of John on the beast with seven heads and ten horns rising from the sea
And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard,
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The Revelation of John on the woman clothed with the sun and the dragon
And there appeared a great wonder in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun; under her feet the moon, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars. She was with child, and cried out in the pangs and torments of birth. And there appeared another wonder in heaven: behold,
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The Apocalypse on the sixth Angel, the release of four Angels and the mounted army
The sixth Angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, saying to the sixth Angel which had the trumpet: Loose the four Angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. And the four Angels were loosed, which were
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Revelation of John the Theologian on the mighty Angel with the open book and the seven thunders
And I saw another mighty Angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire, and he had in his hand a little book open. And he set
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Dürer engravings from the Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo at the Historical Museum until 28 June
The Standard-Bearer, The Monstrous Sow, Christ Taking Leave of His Mother, The Virgin with the Pear, Saint Jerome in His Study. The exhibition of Dürer's engravings at the State Historical Museum makes a very powerful impression. And, incidentally, unlike many critics, I have no quarrel with the
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In "The Immortal Barrack", the story of the writer Yury Dombrovsky, forty years after his death:
After the Gulag he wrote the novel "The Monkey Comes for Its Skull" (1959), the collection of novellas "The Dark Lady. Three Novellas about Shakespeare" (1969), his finest poems, and, finally, the largely autobiographical novels "The Keeper of Antiquities" (1964) and its sequel, "