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View behind the houses on Harley Street in London, a 1925 painting by Algernon Cecil Newton
Behind the houses on Harley Street, London. 1925. Algernon Cecil Newton
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Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, Duchess of Kent (1906-1968), beside the portrait of her mother, Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna (1882-1957)
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British troops burned the White House and the Capitol in 1814, and Jefferson's books replaced the Library of Congress
On 24 August 1814 the White House and the Capitol were burnt by British troops after the American defeat at the Battle of Bladensburg. In the fire the Library of Congress was destroyed entirely. In the end, in place of the burnt library, the state acquired the book collection of
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Galileo drew the relief of the Moon in 1609 and refuted the idea of a smooth lunar sphere
Galileo Galilei's Sketches of the Moon, Published in 1610. Galileo began sketching the Moon in 1609, using a telescope of his own improvement. The fruit of his researches was a series of drawings of the Moon which were not its first depiction: shortly before, Thomas Harriot had recorded
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Horses in the service of the French army, 1890s: not only draught animals for guns of various kinds, but also horses whose harness was fitted with firearms
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The United States' purchase of Louisiana from France in 1803 for 15 million dollars
The 1803 treaty for the purchase of Louisiana, France's North American possessions, signed by the third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson originally wanted to buy only New Orleans from the French, in order to ease trade and logistics thanks to the port of New Orleans.
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When you want to be certain that a person has truly recognised their mistake
Elizabeth II watches forensic science students of Berkshire College gather evidence at a simulated crime scene
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The carpet “Olympiad” of 1979 by Arif Gandi oglu Ismailov
"Olympiad" carpet, 1979. Designed by Arif Gandi ogly Ismailov
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Dostoevsky on nihilists in his letters to Maykov and Meshchersky
"There is nothing to be said about nihilism. Wait until this upper layer, torn away from the soil of Russia, has rotted through entirely. Do you know, it occurs to me that many of these very same scoundrel-youths, these rotting youths, will end by becoming genuine, firm adherents
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Butler's bee hierarchy with a queen at the head, an aristocracy and a plebs
The Hierarchy of Bee Society: An Illustration from The Feminine Monarchie, or The History of Bees, the 1609 Scientific Book by the English Naturalist Charles Butler. That bee society is headed by a queen was news at the time; this fact had been discovered only at the end of the
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Arrested: Perevedentsev, the yard-keeper of house No. 49 on Serpukhovskaya Street
Arrested: Perevedentsev, the yard-keeper of house No. 49 on Serpukhovskaya Street. The matter is this: when the police set up an ambush in one of the flats of the house, the yard-keeper warned every person making for that flat that those who came there were being detained. "
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Adam, Eve and Dinosaurs: The Ascent of Life
and The trumpet of scientific judgement, which raised extinct species from the dead so that they might appear before the tribunal of naturalists - witty illustrations from the astronomer Camille Flammarion's book The World Before the Creation of Man, 1886