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A colourised 1903 photograph shows a Greek shepherd and his son on Mount Parnassus
A Greek shepherd and his son on Mount Parnassus. Colourised photograph, 1903
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Mary of Teck, widow of King George V, died just 10 weeks before the coronation of her granddaughter Elizabeth
Mary of Teck, widow of King George V, died just 10 weeks before the coronation of her granddaughter Elizabeth. On her deathbed she insisted that the coronation not be postponed on account of mourning for her. But Elizabeth's accession itself had taken place in Queen Mary's
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Surrealist painting of a woman at a small table with a face in the chair back
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Works by the Spanish para-surrealist painter María Remedios Varo (1908-1963)
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Irina Antonova would have been 99 today
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Garage Museum made a video on how endowments, or museum target funds, work
Garage has made an excellent video on how endowments, that is, a museum's designated funds, work, with the help of Garage the cat, pumpkins, and examples from ancient Greece, modern America and Sweden. It at once made me want to eat a Garage doughnut, otherwise known as a
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The Warlike Cry of Native Americans and Its Effect on Bison and Bears
John Tanner, in his narrative "Thirty Years Among the Indians", relates a curious detail which may undoubtedly bear witness to the hunting role of cries in remote antiquity:. at the piercing war whoop of the Indians a bison might fall into a swoon, and a bear might flee
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First of all, it is stylish
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99 years ago today, the first radio signal was transmitted from Engineer Shukhov's tower
99 years ago today, the first radio signal was transmitted from Engineer Shukhov's tower. The first broadcast of the Comintern Television Tower was a concert of Russian music featuring Nadezhda Obukhova and Boris Evlakhov. As you pass this tower on Shabolovka, know that its engineering solution, devised and
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Surgeon Samuel de Pozzi in the 1881 portrait by John Singer Sargent
The French surgeon Samuel-Jean de Pozzi (1846-1918) is sometimes called one of the handsomest men of his day. In his university years he even earned the nickname Siren. Pozzi's life was a most entertaining one, and it is no accident that Julian Barnes devoted his latest
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