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"No one doubted that the Emperor would now find himself honest and devoted men": from the memoirs of Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna on the murder of Rasputin
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Salvador Dalí, aged 65, emerges from the underpass of the Bastille Métro station on the rue de Lyon with an anteater
Salvador Dalí, aged 65, emerges from the underpass of the Bastille Métro station on the rue de Lyon with an anteater. The anteater is not his: the animal was provided for the photo shoot by the Jardin des Plantes. Very well. But have you never wondered by what right, exactly?
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Coco Chanel descending the staircase of her Paris atelier in 1961
Coco Chanel on the staircase of her atelier. Paris, 1961
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A Ball on the Stump of a Giant Sequoia
A ball on the stump of a giant sequoia. In the largest living specimens of Sequoiadendron giganteum, the trunk reaches 10 metres in diameter. The oldest giant sequoias growing today are 3,200 to 3,500 years old.
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Photographs from the Family Archive of Emperor Nicholas II
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A Nuclear-Safe Manhattan Beneath New York, Proposed by Oscar Newman in 1969
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Balamand Monastery in Lebanon and the Decline of the Country's Christian Population
A Lebanese Orthodox priest at the Balamand Stauropegic Monastery of the Dormition, situated 80 kilometres north of Beirut. Photograph by Marilyn Stafford, 1960. The Balamand Monastery is one of the oldest foundations in the Patriarchate of Antioch, with a history stretching back more than 850 years. The number of Christians
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Photographs of Frida Kahlo as a Child
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La Casa Kahlo museum on Frida Kahlo's childhood and youth to open in Coyoacán
A new museum devoted to the childhood and youth of the artist will open in the Mexican district of Coyoacán, in the house of Frida Kahlo's parents. The exhibition will include personal belongings, documents and photographs, which were first kept by Frida's parents and then passed
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The impression made by Alberto Giacometti's sculptures at the Venice Biennale in 1962
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Vincent van Gogh's funeral on 30 July 1890 and the brothers' graves at Auvers-sur-Oise
The graves of the brothers Vincent and Theo van Gogh in the municipal cemetery at Auvers-sur-Oise, 30 km from Paris. Vincent van Gogh was buried here on 30 July 1890, the day after his death. The local newspaper ran the following notice: “On Sunday, 27 July, a certain