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Madhav Rao II and Minister Nana Farnavis in a portrait with 18th-century jewellery
Madhav Rao II, head of the Hindu Maratha state, who would take his own life at twenty-one, and his moustachioed minister Nana Phadnavis, who stood against the English. Good jewellery for the eighteenth century, especially the earrings
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The monument to Alexander III on the Prechistenskaya Embankment took 12 years to build, and 2.5 million roubles were raised for it by subscription
The monument to Alexander III on the Prechistenskaya Embankment took 12 years to build, and 2.5 million roubles were raised for it by subscription. It was pulled down six years after its unveiling, in the summer of 1918
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Whatever Catholics choose to call the banner with the Madonna, oriflamme or gonfalon, I merely wanted to show what a splendid contraption the youth has between his legs: for redistributing the weight of the heavy staff, so to speak
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Banners are found among the Orthodox and the Eastern Catholics
Banners are found among the Orthodox and the Eastern Catholics. In the Papal States there was a special office for the bearer of the standard with the arms of the Holy See and of the Pope: the gonfalonier, who among the Italians also carried the standard at the head of
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The Church of Elijah the Prophet Is Still Standing
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Alexey Bogolyubov, Easter in Yaroslavl, 1863
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Happy Holiday!
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The lavatory at Kensington Palace, as I understand it, is for heirs to the crown only
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The Last Supper, as I Would Have Painted It
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The word “strafokamil” in the Egyptian travel account of Hierodeacon Jonah
Strafokamil: strafo (bird) + kamil (camel) = strangely enough, an ostrich. The word was introduced by the hierodeacon Iona, who travelled through Egypt in the seventeenth century: "The bird is like a camel and very large, its hoof has two toes."
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