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World Religions in Figures

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Lightning Strikes the Eiffel Tower, Summer 1902

Black-and-white photo: a mustached man in a straw hat and waistcoat reclines in a gondola, hand raised. A gondolier with an oar stands behind him; water and shore beyond.

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Man in a boater hat with a cane in a gondola, gondolier standing behind

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Vogue Covers of the 1920s

Map of Europe with markers of different sizes and colours showing city populations around 1530, with the largest cluster of big cities in northern Italy.

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Map of European city populations around 1530 and the density of towns in Northern Italy

The population of European cities by the first third of the sixteenth century. Note the densely populated north of Italy: this is precisely the age of the High Renaissance.

Bright abstract painting on a pale wall: red background, black and white areas, smeared figures in green, yellow and flesh tones, and the word Circus in blue at the top.

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Abstract painting with figures and the word Circus on a gallery wall

A man in a grey suit lifts his grey top hat with a white-gloved hand as he stoops in a low arched opening in a wall. Behind him is a courtyard with tables.

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Man in a top hat and white glove stepping through an arched opening

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Still the Best-Loved Door in Moscow

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There Is No Better Definition of the Word "Cringe" Than This Portrait of the Argentine President as Napoleon

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Vladimir Weisberg Has Depicted My Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner for the Duration of Great Lent

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A Little More Rothko from His Recent Exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton

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