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And in literature this is called a romantic attachment

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The Man Who Lived to Draw His Pension Has Seen What It Amounts To

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You Looked Different Online

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Michelangelo's Torments of Saint Anthony look as though the song from the cartoon "Three Bogatyrs" is playing in the background: "Carried off, oh, carried off somewhere, carried me off"

Satellite image of the Vatican with a blue circle marking the car park in the lower Belvedere Courtyard near St Peter's Basilica.

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Car park in the Belvedere Courtyard in the Vatican seen in a satellite image

The world's most exclusive car park can be seen in a satellite image of the Vatican. The lower part of the Belvedere Courtyard, one of the most famous and significant palaces of the Renaissance, is used as a car park. Every age has its hallmarks

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Sokurov's five-hour film to be shown at the Venice Festival

Sokurov's five-hour film is to be shown at the Venice Festival. The chief question is whether anyone apart from Alexander Nikolayevich himself will manage to sit through the picture to the end. The documentary work by the director Alexander Sokurov, entitled “The Director's Diary”, will

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The Shortest Lecture on the History of Art

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Confess: you can't tell Keira Knightley from Natalie Portman either, can you?

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Vegetarian Coffee

Vegetarian coffee. From the book “Kitchen on a Primus Stove”, 1927

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Alexander the Great in a Submarine

A hand with gold bracelets and rings holds a handbag shaped like the Trevi Fountain, against light quilted patchwork fabric.

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Miniature replica of the Trevi Fountain made as a handbag

A Ladies' Handbag in the Form of the Trevi Fountain, by Dolce & Gabbana. The only odd thing is that there is no crowd of tourists around it, trying to photograph the fountain

Studio photograph of two bearded men in suits, one seated with arms crossed, the other standing with a hand in his pocket.

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The resemblance between Nicholas II and George V in matching photographs

Nicholas II and George V are such card-players, swapping places in identical photographs to confuse everyone around them: the Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen of their day. I just can't decide whether this is already "Big Daddy" or still "Two of a Kind: Me