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Corporal Joseph Trumpeldor asks to keep his weapons after losing an arm at Port Arthur

"I have one arm left; but this one is the right. Therefore, wishing to go on sharing the soldier's life of battle with my comrades, I beg Your Honour's intercession for the issue to me of a sabre and a revolver," wrote Lance-Corporal

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Russian Hill in San Francisco at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century

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The Attire of Prince Charles and Princess Anne for the Coronation of Elizabeth II

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Diana's brother Charles Spencer shares a photograph from the family archive showing Queen Mary of Teck surrounded by the Spencers during her visit to their ancestral seat, Althorp House

Diana's brother Charles Spencer has shared a photograph from the family archive showing Queen Mary of Teck surrounded by the Spencers during her visit to their ancestral seat, Althorp House. The picture shows the grandfather and grandmother of Charles and Diana, their aunt, and their father with a

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Some miser was there once, who had no end of money

Some miser was there once, who had no end of money, And as he used to tell it, he had grown rich Without dealing crookedly, Without plundering or ruining anyone, No, he swore to it, That God had sent him such wealth into his house And that he was not

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Stereoscopic Photograph "Leo Tolstoy on the Terrace of His House at Yasnaya Polyana"

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In 1948 Robert Doisneau secretly photographed passers-by at a gallery window with a nude painting

In 1948, the French photographer Robert Doisneau made a series of secret photographs of people who had caught sight of a nineteenth-century painting of a female nude in the window of an art gallery. Doisneau hid his Rolleiflex behind an antique chair, so that he was nowhere to be

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The death of John Kipling in 1915 and his father Rudyard Kipling's poem of 1916

A medical board refused 16-year-old John Kipling conscription for the front in the First World War because of short-sightedness. The youth was burning to serve, as earlier he had dreamed of entering a military school. His influential father, by then the world-famous writer Rudyard Kipling, used

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Modigliani in His Studio in 1915

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A Register of Goods for the Tsar's Treasury Suggests That Alexei Mikhailovich Did Not Favour French Wines

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Countess Virginia La Castiglione and her photograph archive at the Metropolitan Museum

Countess Virginia Oldoini di Castiglione (1837-1899) fell in love with being photographed before it became mainstream. Thanks to the fact that her archive of photographs found its way into the Metropolitan Museum as early as the nineteenth century, dozens of portraits of this society intriguer, courtesan and Parisian fashionista

Three American soldiers in an underground mine vault hold a gilt-framed Manet painting of a woman and a bearded man beside a mine cart.

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US soldiers with Manet’s “In the Conservatory”, looted by the Nazis, in the Merkers mines in 1945

US Army soldiers in the Merkers mine vault with Édouard Manet's painting "In the Conservatory", looted by the Nazis. 25 April 1945