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Artist-Writers and Young Ladies: Take Note

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The Piper Comanche shot down by dozens of arrows, fired by North Dakota Indians in protest at the building of an oil pipeline, turns out on an internet search to be the very same single-engine aircraft in which Obama flew over a reservation in Oklahoma…

The Piper Comanche shot down by dozens of arrows, fired by North Dakota Indians in protest at the building of an oil pipeline, turns out on an internet search to be the very same single-engine aircraft in which Obama flew over a reservation in Oklahoma and came under fire

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Ever noticed how much Louis XV in profile resembles Catherine the Great?

Ever noticed how much Louis XV in profile resembles Catherine the Great? In their later years, that is. Had they met in person, they would surely have found each other rather agreeable

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Gesina's 1651 drawing of a woman with two children in a carrying basket

Thanks to Gesina ter Borch, an artist of the Dutch Golden Age, for an idea on how to save on a pram. Gesina drew the woman with two children in a carrying basket in 1651, when she herself was about 20 years old. Own up, whom did these realities of

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Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo signs a crab shell, and the origin of the word cutlet

Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris with newly sprouted presidential ambitions, signs a crab's shell. She writes: Vive La France! At least it is not a half-eaten cutlet, that is, a steak haché (if you ask a waiter in France for a cutlet, and the word really was

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Child's potty of the 6th century BC found in Athens and the inventions of ancient Greece

Don't even think of trying to escape. A child's potty of the 6th century BC, found in Athens. It is odd that this ingenious model is not manufactured today, but it does make plain the thesis that in Ancient Greece literally everything was invented, and that

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Nike?

Nike? An excellent choice!

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A reminder: the first fallen snowflake means it is time to rewatch Anastasia

Medieval miniature of an armoured knight crawling on a sword across water towards a castle, with two lions on the bank and two figures at a window.

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Lancelot crosses the sword bridge to a castle in a medieval miniature

It is Friday today, which means that many a Lancelot will be returning to his castle in roughly this fashion. Mind your swords!

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Forgive me if I am mistaken, but... is that the Green Knight from David Lowery's 2021 fantasy, doodled in the margins of the Glastonbury Cartulary?