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Auguste Tulmouche, 1870
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Madam, I Do Not Dance!
A man shot dead at a ball for treading on a lady's foot and refusing to apologise. 1898
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Temperance is a goddess who appears every night with her tools and winds the clocks forward, so that we sleep less
At least, if we are to believe one of the codices of Christine de Pizan
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Looking at this 1909 photograph of Sir Winston Churchill, then a major and a Member of Parliament, with Kaiser Wilhelm II, I think not of history and politics but of how splendid it would be to bring back capes like Wilhelm's into men's fashion
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Mourning dress and accessories in the Dutch fashion magazine De Gracieuse, April 1880
A selection of mourning dress and accessories in a Dutch fashion magazine, April 1880. After all, a widow must be not only merry but fashionable too
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Carel Fabritius's celebrated Goldfinch was sold on 27 February 1896 for 6,200 francs
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At Home with Karl Lagerfeld, 1982
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The man after whom Franz Josef Land, now part of Russia, is named, one of the longest-reigning monarchs of Europe, Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, Bohemia, Croatia and Slavonia, Galicia and Lodomeria, Franz Joseph I…
A photograph of 1910: the old man here is 80, and he will go on reigning for another 6 years and live to see the murder of his heir, Archduke Franz Ferdinand. If you remember the novel «The Man Without Qualities», the preparations for the coming seventieth anniversary of Franz
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Mikhail Kozakov and Oleg Tabakov
Mikhail Kozakov and Oleg Tabakov. The MKhAT hostel, 1956
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Perhaps the story of Lebedev-Kumach's madness is one of the most frequently retold memories of the hasty, chaotic and frightening evacuation of Moscow 80 years ago, when German troops closed in on the city's lines of defence and everyone in the capital…
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1912 Guidebook to the Loire Châteaux for Motorists, with Route Arrows on Photographs
Forerunner of Yandex Maps: a slim 1912 tourist guide to the châteaux of the Loire, designed for motoring tourists, has arrows showing the route and the right turning drawn directly over photographs of the landscape. Despite the plainness of the views and the rather poor quality of the offset printing,