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Reverse of a wooden panel with a handwritten inscription
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F. Setone's 1734 engraving with a portrait of Empress Anna Ioannovna
Portrait of the second Russian Empress, niece of Peter I and daughter of Ivan V, Anna Ioannovna, engraving by F. Setone. 1734
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Auguste Rodin: Listen, It's All in Your Hands
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In Brief: The State of the World Press
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Death of Empress Catherine II at the Winter Palace on 17 November 1796, aged 67
On 17 November 1796, Catherine II died in the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg. The Empress was 67 years old
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Splendid household furnishings, dress, carriages, the luxury of the table: all this makes a man neither great nor worthy of respect, for none of it forms any part of him, but lies outside him and has no kinship with him whatever
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Spanish Ships, on Learning That NASA Has Found Gold on Mars
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A Fresco from Pompeii and a Painting by Van Gogh
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The Endgame, if the Pawn Is Not Given a Pastry in Good Time
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A very sad find: Gesina ter Borch, an artist of the Dutch Golden Age, drew her brother Moses, to whom death creeps up from behind a tree and rows towards in a boat, and her sister Elteken, whom death leads through a church
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