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It seems one may breathe out: the cathedral has been saved from the "modern architectural look" that Macron's gang was cautiously pushing. It must be said that this is owed to strong pressure from the public and from lovers of the historical heritage. The spire is
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Sarah and the Angel, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1727-1728, fresco, Patriarchal Palace, Udine. And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac. Genesis, Chapter 17, verse 19
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The Falling Tower from the "Divine Comedy" Is Under Threat of Collapse. The authorities of Bologna have closed access to the famous leaning tower of Garisenda and cordoned off the area around it, since the instruments monitoring the tower's condition have recorded anomalous oscillations. The Garisenda
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The Horses of Saint Mark, or the Triumphal Quadriga, are one of the emblematic monuments of Venice. The team of four steeds has adorned the façade of the Basilica of Saint Mark for almost eight centuries. At the very start of the plundering of Italy, in 1797, Napoleon carried the
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On the website of the Ryazan Diocese I read how volunteers, together with local historians and villagers, found in the village of Semion a bas-relief of the Saviour from one of the oldest churches of Ryazan Governorate. The church of the Great Martyr Paraskeva Pyatnitsa in the village of
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The first award for women in the history of Persia, the Order of the Sun for ladies, نشان آفتاب, Nishan-i-Aftab, was established by the fourth Shah of Iran of the Qajar dynasty, Naser al-Din, in 1873. The badge and the star of the order are made in
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The Lion's Mound, or Butte du Lion, is a 52-metre monument to the Battle of Waterloo, begun in 1820 and completed in 1826. To build the 40-metre mound, earth was brought in from various parts of the battlefield, and on its summit a 4-metre lion
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189 years ago in London the medieval Palace of Westminster, the ancient residence of the English kings, burned down. The painter William Turner, like most Londoners, watched the fire to the very end. The palace, where Parliament had sat since the sixteenth century, was almost completely destroyed. Turner got into
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Girls Are Standing, Standing to One Side. The ruins of Cyrene, the chief city of Libya according to Herodotus
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This is the entrance to the Jesuit College and the adjoining church of Sant'Ignazio, of which only the façade survives. The historic complex of buildings in Piazza Plebiscito is one of the principal sights of the city of Mazara del Vallo.
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US Army soldiers in the Merkers mine vault with Édouard Manet's painting "In the Conservatory", looted by the Nazis. 25 April 1945