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A digital artist imagines how the Ryabushinsky mansion might look in Europe
The Ryabushinsky Mansion, had it lived in Europe. The building is imaginary, created by a digital artist
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Man in pince-nez, white dress uniform and plumed helmet in the second half of the 20th century
Tell me, am I the only one who thinks the Governor of Bermuda in the early 1960s, Major-General Sir Julian Gascoigne, in old-fashioned full-dress uniform and pith helmet, looks like the chief antagonist of the first Jumanji film, the demented hunter Van P. And do not forget
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Albrecht Dürer
Albrecht Dürer. Clear off this instant, or I shall fetch the constable. 1510
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Might one ask Coca-Cola to bring back the 1899 bottle?
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Gustave Courbet's The Origin of the World in Your Kitchen
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Guido Reni's painting of Atalanta and Hippomenes and the myth of their transformation into lions
Take to Your Heels, You Fool! Guido Reni. Atalanta and Hippomenes, 1622-1625. The picture is based on the myth of the beautiful Atalanta, who invited the men who fell in love with her to run away from her, and entirely unarmed at that. She herself pursued them with a
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If Anyone Has Forgotten What Camilla, England's Queen Consort, Looks Like
If anyone has forgotten what Camilla, England's Queen Consort, looks like. Incidentally, she is almost a contemporary of Alla Pugacheva: there are just 2 years between them.
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The Roundest Countries in the World
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Facts about Beethoven's mother from Koblenz refute the myth of his African origin
We have already heard about a black Napoleon; now it turns out that Beethoven was black too. One wonders who is next in line: Shakespeare? The author of this theory has even published a book, but not one of the facts he cites as proof of Beethoven's African
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English satire of the Prince Regent, the future George IV, and his foreign tailors
To waste your time before a Glass Exposes oft a monstrous Ass! An English satire on the Prince Regent, surrounded by foreign tailors recommended by Prince Esterházy. The pointedly boundless lower deck of the future King George IV, at that time Regent of Great Britain in place of his incapacitated
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Americans 🤦🏿♀️🤦🏿♂️
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