Close-up of an ancient-style marble bust: a man with a thick curly beard, moustache and short hair, eyes without pupils. Another bust is visible behind.

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Marble bust of a bearded man with short hair

Colour cartoon: at the top, a group of dark-skinned people with French flags looks down at two light-skinned people with a mirror and cosmetics.

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Kladderadatsch cartoon of 1932 depicting what France would look like in 100 years

An illustration from the German satirical magazine Kladderadatsch, 1932, foreseeing the image of France a hundred years on: "The last white Frenchmen, the chief attraction of the Paris Zoo". Eight years remain until 2032

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A reminder of what Cleopatra looked like, the last ruler of Ancient Egypt, a member of the Greco-Macedonian Ptolemaic dynasty

An elderly man in a white cassock with a pectoral cross sits in an optician's shop beside a smiling man in a suit and two laughing women.

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Pope Francis visits his favourite optician's shop and poses for a photo with customers

Pope Francis has once again been spotted beyond the confines of the Vatican: this time the pontiff decided to call in at his favourite optician's. As you can see, the Pope did not refuse a joint snap with the fortunate lady customers

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A Cameo by Saint Thérèse of Lisieux in the 2002 "Spider-Man"

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In 2015 National Geographic appeared with a cover naming the Virgin Mary the most influential woman in the world

Painting of the ruined colonnade of an ancient building, with a figure in a toga on the steps and a red sun in the sunset sky.

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Sunset will soon come to every country in Europe

Sunset. Very soon, in every country of Europe

A tall blue sign reading "Tolstoy" with a site map and list of locations stands in a clover meadow, near a thatched log cabin and visitors.

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Tolstoy festival wayfinding sign on a green meadow

Twelve images of the Moon in a circle, from a dark disc at the bottom through thin crescents and half phases to the full moon at the top. Black and white.

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Phases of the Moon arranged in a circle on a black background

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The Abduction of Europa, a drawing on a Greek vase of the 4th century BC found at Paestum, a Greek colony in Italy

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Catholics versus Protestants, it would seem

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