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A Drawing of an Elephant, 1550

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German mining of Pushkin's grave and the clearing of mines from the Pushkin Reserve

A wooden plaque with a warning inscription: "The grave of A.S. Pushkin is mined. Entry forbidden. Senior Lieutenant Starcheus." The Germans occupied the Pushkin Reserve for three years, from 12 July 1941 to 12 July 1944. The fascists were driven out of Pushkinskiye Gory by units of

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During the building of the pyramid of King Neferirkare, the tallest of the Fifth Dynasty pyramids, one of the officials in charge of its construction was so overcome by the pharaoh's visit that he died of fright

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Tchaikovsky's Musical Autograph

A uniformed man leans on a drum beside a gun carriage; a boy bugler sits on it with a horn and a staff topped by an eagle. A large building looms behind.

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Two Royal Artillery musicians with drum and bugle by a gun carriage, London, 1856

Photograph of Crimean War participants, London, 1856. Surviving trumpeters of the Royal Artillery hold a captured flagstaff with an eagle

Black-and-white photograph of a woman in dark clothing behind a window with her palms raised to the glass, a wrought-iron balcony railing in front.

NB! · Archive · Paris · People · Pop Culture

Edith Piaf at the window of her last home on Boulevard Lannes in the 1950s

Édith Piaf at her last home on the Boulevard Lannes. 1950s

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King George V in Infancy

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Little Lilibet, the future Queen Elizabeth II, smiles at her grandfather, King George V, while out walking with her grandmother, Queen Mary of Teck, in 1929

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A Happy Girl with a Cat, France, 1959

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Poster Celebrating Egyptian-Soviet Friendship, Commemorating the Construction of the Aswan Dam

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Haymaking on the Île aux Juifs in Paris in a Très Riches Heures miniature of the Duke of Berry

Happy start of summer, everyone! May June be as fruitful and bountiful as it is in the miniature from the Très Riches Heures of the Duke of Berry, dating from the middle of the fifteenth century. The miniature already shows the haymaking, for Europe is, after all, a little warmer.

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