Reddish line drawing on a marble slab: a nude youth fights a centaur, with a third figure visible on the right.

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Marble drawing of Theseus and a centaur from Herculaneum, Naples museum

A delightful preparatory drawing on marble: Theseus and the Centaur. Found at Herculaneum, AD 20-30. On display at the Archaeological Museum of Naples

A pale, hazy silhouette of a figure in a long garment emerges from a dark grey fibrous background resembling felt. Small orange and reddish patches show near the centre.

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Blurred pale silhouette of a figure on a dark felt surface

NB! · Archaeology · Archive · Faith · The East

The Ruins of the Temple of Jupiter at Baalbek, Lebanon: Photographs of the Late Nineteenth Century

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A Reminder Before Bedtime

A huge replica of Noah's Ark afloat on the water, with a tugboat beside it and a road and lawn on the shore.

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A replica of Noah's Ark in the Netherlands is put up for sale for 350,000 euros

A replica of Noah's Ark is for sale in the Netherlands. The price is 350,000 euros.

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King Felipe VI of Spain and Queen Letizia in Official Portraits by Annie Leibovitz

A figure in white papal vestments lies on a red carpet in an ornate hall with marble columns and a fireplace, gripping a staff while pinned beneath a dark rock.

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Cattelan's The Ninth Hour: sculpture of a pope struck down by a meteorite

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Yet Another Cringeworthy Work by Maurizio Cattelan, Entitled La Nona Ora, Shows Pope John Paul II Felled by a Meteorite

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Jorge Luis Borges in Sicily, 1985

Black-and-white photograph of a man in a hat with a briefcase and a woman in a coat running hand in hand along a street with skyscrapers behind them.

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A wish for the new day with a photograph of a man and woman running hand in hand

This is you bounding into a new day, certain that today you will keep every promise you made to yourself. Don't mention it

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We fuss about, fixate on the weather forecast, dig ourselves out of the snowdrifts

We fuss about, fixate on the weather forecast, dig ourselves out of the snowdrifts. Meanwhile, in Palermo:

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At last I remember what that music show on Rossiya-1 reminds me of, the one where the judges for some reason start singing along with the contestants while Sergei Lazarev runs up and down the aisles pressing buttons