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The Sixteenth-Century Poet and Courtier Sir John Harington, Ancestor of Kit Harington, Who Played Jon Snow in "Game of Thrones", Invented the First Flushing Lavatory for the Ageing Queen Elizabeth I

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Privateers in the service of the English Crown under Elizabeth I and after

It is held that nothing so enriched the English, or allowed so many of them to amass the vast fortunes they are known to possess, as the wars with the Spaniards in the days of Queen Elizabeth. Everyone was permitted to engage in privateering, and they plundered not only the

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Catherine II Setting Out for a Falcon Hunt, Valentin Serov, 1902

Catherine II Setting Out for a Falcon Hunt, Valentin Serov, 1902. Tempera on paper

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Peter II and Tsesarevna Elizabeth Out Hunting with Hounds, Valentin Serov, 1900

Peter II and Tsesarevna Elizabeth Out Hunting with Hounds, Valentin Serov, 1900. Tempera and gouache on paper mounted on board

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They Stand There Swapping Jokes, Delighted

They stand there swapping jokes, delighted. Recalling, no doubt, the secret memoirs of Edward VIII on his collaboration with the Third Reich and his plans to regain the throne with Hitler's help.

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Mood: Elizabeth II through the lens of François-Marie Banier, 1992

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Antoine Augustin Parmentier, Chief Apothecary of the Hôtel des Invalides, presents the first potato harvest to Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette on the Plaine des Sablons in 1786

Antoine Augustin Parmentier, Chief Apothecary of the Hôtel des Invalides, presents the first potato harvest to Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette on the Plaine des Sablons in 1786. Antoine Parmentier received from the king 54 acres of land on which to cultivate the potato and make it fashionable among the

Horsemen in old-fashioned dress ride across a snowy field, a borzoi in the foreground, a sleigh and dogs on the right.

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Valentin Serov’s painting “Peter I Hunting with Hounds”, created in 1902

Peter I Hunting with Hounds, 1902. Valentin Serov

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Allegory of the Volga from Meissen’s “Big Russian Order” for Catherine the Great

The figure of a majestic, serene river god reclining on a bed of boulders and waterweed is the allegory of the Volga from the exquisite "Great Russian Commission" of the Meissen manufactory. The heroically built old man leans upon an overturned vessel, from which turbulent waters pour forth,

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Apollinary Vasnetsov and the menus of the coronation dinners in Moscow in May 1896

Menu of the dinner for the volost elders, 18 May 1896, at the Petrovsky Palace on the occasion of the coronation of Nicholas II, printed in colour lithography at the Levenson quick-printing house from sketches by Apollinary Vasnetsov, younger brother of t. Apollinary Vasnetsov, like his brother, took part

Porcelain figure of a rider in a tricorn hat and white gold-trimmed coat on a rearing white horse, with a Black servant in a turban and blue coat beside her.

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Meissen porcelain figure of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna on horseback with a servant, after a model by Kändler

Meissen porcelain figurine of the Russian Empress Elizabeth Petrovna on a rearing white horse, attended by a black servant, after a model by J. J. Kändler

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The Sixteenth-Century Poet and Courtier Sir John Harington, Ancestor of Kit Harington, Who Played Jon Snow in "Game of Thrones", Invented the First Flushing Lavatory for the Ageing Queen Elizabeth I

Privateers in the service of the English Crown under Elizabeth I and after

Catherine II Setting Out for a Falcon Hunt, Valentin Serov, 1902

Peter II and Tsesarevna Elizabeth Out Hunting with Hounds, Valentin Serov, 1900

They Stand There Swapping Jokes, Delighted

Mood: Elizabeth II through the lens of François-Marie Banier, 1992

Antoine Augustin Parmentier, Chief Apothecary of the Hôtel des Invalides, presents the first potato harvest to Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette on the Plaine des Sablons in 1786

Valentin Serov’s painting “Peter I Hunting with Hounds”, created in 1902

Allegory of the Volga from Meissen’s “Big Russian Order” for Catherine the Great

Apollinary Vasnetsov and the menus of the coronation dinners in Moscow in May 1896

Meissen porcelain figure of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna on horseback with a servant, after a model by Kändler

Louis-Philippe was such a mediocre ruler that he had to be reborn as a gel polish before anyone would say a good word about him