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Yves Montand, Édith Piaf and Permanent Make-Up

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And now these women are calling somebody a prostitute, from their bench by the entrance

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Neil Gaiman warns at once that his official Tumblr is no better than the unofficial ones

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Only just spotted this epic 2000s telly at the Queen's Windsor Castle, complete with oval side table, which every granny ought to have at home

Only just spotted this epic 2000s telly at the Queen's Windsor Castle, complete with oval side table, which every granny ought to have at home. Yesss👌🏽

Engraving of a man in a cap seated in an armchair, with a skull-bodied spider at his feet, a cat and a book titled “Diary of Health” nearby.

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Illustration “The Hypochondriac” by Richard Dagley, created in 1827

The Hypochondriac. Does anyone recognise themselves? Illustration by Richard Dagley, 1827

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One of Paul Ramsey's best-known works expresses exactly how I see people who can, at the drop of a hat, hold forth on your star sign, your natal chart, your ascendant and all the rest of it

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Photo of Pope Francis dealing with a fault in his old Fiat

Just add holy water! This photograph might serve as the finest allegory of the pontificate of Francis I: His Holiness, in person, attempting to get to the bottom of a fault in his elderly Fiat. Should anyone entertain doubts, apart from the Roman Pontiff the same white habit is worn

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Don't Relax, Girls, It's Only Tuesday

A work by Alexey Kondakov

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If anyone is desperate to give me a present but has no idea what: this is what the Swatch watch with Elizabeth II and a well-fed corgi looks like

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And which of us is the fattest sheep?

An elderly man in a light sweater walks along a beach beside a black dog, with sea waves behind them.

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Labrador Baltic accompanied Mitterrand for years and appears in his bronze monument

When, in 1993, François Mitterrand was asked about his successor at the Élysée Palace, he replied that, in order of preference, he would like to see in that role: the President of the European Commission Jacques Delors, the Minister of Defence François Lé. The black Labrador Baltic was for many

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