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Embroidery pattern “The Adoration of the Magi” of 1603, 150 by 117 stitches
The Adoration of the Magi. Embroidery pattern of 1603
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Cholera aboard the Melpomene at Toulon in 1833 in Giono's novel and Vernet's painting
In the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Marseille hangs Horace Vernet's "Cholera on Board the Melpomene", painted in 1835 for the Board of Health, which had been assembling a collection on the theme of epidemics for its council chamber since the 1730s. The events aboard the
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Stephen Tennant in Cecil Beaton's photographs, an aesthete famed for his appearance
In Cecil Beaton's photographs: Stephen Tennant, perhaps one of the most elegant people of the twentieth century, or at the very least one of the best-known aesthetes of the last one. Yet he became famous not for his lineage (though he came from the privileged class), nor
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Visitors at café tables on Capri in 1984, photographed from above
Capri, 1984. Look: nobody is sitting on their phones, people are simply living through the moment. Photo by Ferdinando Scianna
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Punishments in the Ottoman Empire of the Sixteenth Century
From Pictures of Turkish Folk Life, illustrations by Heindrich Hendrovsky
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A Giraffe in London in 1935
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Catherine II’s “Nakaz” as a portrait of the empress and its article on customs duties
I continue reading the draft of Catherine's Code, her "Instruction" of 22 chapters and 655 articles, that is, the direct guide for the deputies in drawing up the principal body of laws of the Russian Empire, a new Code to replace the "Sobornoye Ulozhenie"
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Franz Kafka, Aged Two
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Catherine II's Instruction to the Commission on the success of Peter the Great's reforms
Russia Is a European Power. The proof of this is as follows. The changes that Peter the Great undertook in Russia met with the greater success because the manners prevailing at that time were wholly unsuited to the climate, having been brought to us by the intermingling of various peoples
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Work in the Catacombs of Paris in 1862
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Compiègne Armistice between the Entente and Germany signed in Picardy on 11 November 1918
On 11 November 1918, at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the Armistice of Compiègne was concluded between the Entente powers and Germany, ending hostilities in the First World War. The document, signed in the French region of Picardy, effectively put an end to the