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John the Baptist and Jesus in the Wombs of Their Mothers
John the Baptist and Jesus in the wombs of their mothers. The subject is slightly alarming, isn't it? When, in the fifth form, I drew something similar, an infant in the belly with a cigarette, for a school wall newspaper on the dangers of smoking, I was censured
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Centaurs descend from King Ixion, who killed his father-in-law and, by the will of Zeus, lay with a cloud in the likeness of Hera, whence the centaurs were born
Centaurs descend from King Ixion, who killed his father-in-law and, by the will of Zeus, lay with a cloud in the likeness of Hera, whence the centaurs were born. So a scene of acquaintance without nude selfies is doubly allegorical
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This tortoise from the Michael Mahzor (Jewish codex of the early fourteenth century) may, oddly enough, correspond to the astronomical scorpion, Akrav, and relates to the prayer for rain
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15th-century tomb of five priests who look like Voldemort
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One of the fifteen canvases painted by Aivazovsky in Tbilisi
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Tim Roth and Daniel Defoe: There Is Definitely Something There
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Thousand-year-old astrolabe sold at Sotheby's for £680,750
A 1,000-year-old astrolabe sold at Sotheby's for £680,750; a pity that an instrument so popular in antiquity has been forgotten, along with the fundamentals of astronomy, though. How can one be educated without them?
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The Viewer's Armchair, Invented Long Before Television
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Kurdish Poem About October in Latin Script from a Publication of the Same Years
For comparison: a Kurdish socialist poem in Latin script, from a publication of the same years. Here is Oktyabr, the soap of the proletariat, no less!
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On the Latinisation of the Turkic Languages: A Page from a Kurdish Children's Book Published in Armenia in the 1930s
On the Latinisation of the Turkic languages: a page from a Kurdish children's book published in Armenia in the 1930s. I have no idea what it means, but it reminded me of the Captain Second Rank in "Ivan Denisovich".