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Voiture woke Count de Guiche at night to announce that he was married

The Comte de Guiche asked Vincent Voiture, a man renowned for his wit, whether it was true that he was married. Voiture gave no answer. But he came to the count after midnight, woke him and said: "I have come to tell you that I am married". De

Etching of a hairy human-like creature sitting among plants and reading an unrolled scroll, signed Marcotino at the bottom.

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1908 etching by German artist Markus Böhmer on reading the news

Each of us, reading day after day this endless stream of news German artist Markus Böhmer, 1908

Screenshot of a social media comment joking that people in Boston have been rude since the tea incident.

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Internet joke about the Boston Tea Party as a nod to the origins of the American Revolutionary War

An unexpected analysis of the preconditions of the American War of Independence

Printed excerpt of a book review describing the eleventh chapter, “Could a Cro-Magnon Have Enrolled at the Sorbonne?”, and the twelfth chapter, “Man and Society”.

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Soviet scholars ask whether a Cro-Magnon could have enrolled at the Sorbonne

Soviet researchers once asked themselves: could a Cro-Magnon have entered the Sorbonne? Recent events have given a perfectly definite answer to this rhetorical inquiry