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Two Royal Artillery musicians with drum and bugle by a gun carriage, London, 1856
Photograph of Crimean War participants, London, 1856. Surviving trumpeters of the Royal Artillery hold a captured flagstaff with an eagle
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Our usual failing is that only what is new and extraordinary makes an impression on us
Our usual failing is that only what is new and extraordinary makes an impression on us. The ordinary, what we see every day and make use of, however great, ingenious and excellent it may be, holds either little charm for us or none at all, and does not draw our
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Surely that's how everyone works, isn't it?
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That Pythagorean Again
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Edith Piaf at the window of her last home on Boulevard Lannes in the 1950s
Édith Piaf at her last home on the Boulevard Lannes. 1950s
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King George V in Infancy
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A Hundred-Year-Old Rhododendron and the Woman Who Tended It All Her Life
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Little Lilibet, the future Queen Elizabeth II, smiles at her grandfather, King George V, while out walking with her grandmother, Queen Mary of Teck, in 1929
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Engraving “Dessein, Pantographe”: a drawing instrument and its parts
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A Happy Girl with a Cat, France, 1959
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Page 49 of a Russian book: a passage about a locksmith and his reading
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