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Alexander Semyonovich Shishkov, champion of the old style, proposed to use "sharokat" instead of the word billiards, and "sharopikh" instead of the word cue

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Soviet People, Photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson

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The French Colonies, for Which, in Essence, the French Are Now Paying with the De-Christianisation of France and the Replacement of Its Native Population

NB! · Art · Museums · New York

King Arthur, tapestry of 1385, collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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The Immaculate Conception, Francesco de Mura, 1720

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Gary Oldman as the young Dracula, 1992, photograph by Herb Ritts

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Andrew Wyeth, “747”, 1980

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The House-Museum of the Artist and Inventor Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo (1871-1949) in Venice

Vaulted hall with a ceiling painted as interlacing branches and leaves, with two blue inscribed plaques. Fragmentary wall painting, two dark arched doorways, stone-tiled floor.

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Sala delle Asse in Sforza Castle, Milan: vault painted with tree canopy

NB! · Art · Museums · Paris

Alexander Calder's mobile, or kinetic sculpture, entitled France Forever, with the Cross of Lorraine, the tricolour and the black cloud of fascism

Alexander Calder's mobile, or kinetic sculpture, entitled France Forever, with the Cross of Lorraine, the tricolour and the black cloud of fascism. The work was made in 1942 and acquired by the French Musée de l'Armée in 2020 for 6 million euros

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Architectural Gourmandise from Giovanni Battista Piranesi

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George Balanchine, founder of the School of American Ballet, born Georgiy Balanchivadze, with the ballerina Suzanne Farrell at the Saratoga Race Course, and an unidentified horseman