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Frenchwomen with placards demand the right to vote for women
Frenchwomen of 1947 fight for the right to vote. Happy holiday, girls! Find something good and fight for it!
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And here is a touching drawing of a bird discovered by that same scandalous seafarer William Dampier, from his 1703 book on the voyage to the shores of New Holland
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A version holds that William Dampier, not Stradling, marooned Selkirk
What, in fact, were these two stories told for. There was once a captain who made three voyages round the world, the author of several books, a pirate and simply an entertaining scoundrel, William Dampier. King William III received him into the academy, and then Dampier was tried for cruelty
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Defoe’s “Robinson Crusoe” and the disputed question of the author’s acquaintance with Selkirk
It is said that Defoe did not find a publisher for his sea novel at once. By the time he came to write "Robinson...", the sixty-year-old De Foe, as he styled himself, was already a well-known journalist and writer in England. And, as John Winterich
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William Taylor, publisher of “Robinson Crusoe”, left his widow a fortune in 1724
William Taylor Was the Owner of a Shop in Paternoster Row with the Promising Name "The Ship" By the end of his life the successful businessman had managed to put by between 40 and 50 thousand pounds. By the standards of the eighteenth century that is an enormous
NB! · Archive · Books · Humour
Medieval Bestiaries Have Answered the Question of How to Receive Many Gifts on 8 March
NB! · Archaeology · Art · Humour
Bust of a Roman child with worn paint on the eyes and a comparison to Minister Oreshkin
The Roman child looks like Minister Oreshkin. Pay no attention to the alarming eyes, the paint has simply worn away
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I am very fond of beautiful tableware, but I still do not know what considerations ought to guide one in placing a Medici garden vase in the kitchen, even if it is eighteenth-century and by Philippe Mombert
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Servants Can Be So Inept
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Not Quite Sure: Is That a Fish She's Holding?
NB! · Archaeology
Erotic fresco from Pompeii created in the 1st century AD
Pompeii, 1st century AD. Apparatus