Old black-and-white photograph: a young man in a buttoned uniform sits in a chair with a girl in a light dress on his lap, surrounded by four standing boys.

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Studio group portrait of a young man in uniform with four boys and a small girl

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Oliver Cromwell in a Horned Hat, with a Bespectacled Owl on His Shoulder

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The Holy Mandylion of the seventeenth century from the Church of St Nicholas in the village of Kovda, a patrimony of the Solovetsky Monastery

The Holy Mandylion of the seventeenth century from the Church of St Nicholas in the village of Kovda, a patrimony of the Solovetsky Monastery. Collection of the Murmansk Regional Art Museum

Nicholas II on horseback holds an icon before ranks of soldiers, with an officer in a green uniform mounted nearby.

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Nicholas II blesses soldiers of the 37th Division with an icon before their departure for the Russo-Japanese War front

Nicholas II blesses soldiers departing for the front of the Russo-Japanese War with the icon of the Saviour Not Made by Hands. Farewell to the 37th Division

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The writer Sergey Durylin, Pasternak's teacher, built a house on a foundation of stones from a chapel of the Moscow Kremlin, with the help of his friend the architect Shchusev, who designed Lenin's Mausoleum

The writer Sergey Durylin, Pasternak's teacher, built a house on a foundation of stones from a chapel of the Moscow Kremlin, with the help of his friend the architect Shchusev, who designed Lenin's Mausoleum. Later a mail kukuruznik (a small Soviet biplane) crashed onto this house.

Old engraving of festivities, booths and carriages on the ice of the Thames, with a title cartouche about the frost of 1683 and a lettered key below.

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Frost fair on the frozen River Thames in London during the severe frost of 1683

Public festivities on the ice of the River Thames in London in 1683, with entertainments, refreshments and booths. Evidently the townsfolk understood that such a fair comes only once, and everyone who could attended the spectacle

Grey memorial plaque reading Rosa Luxemburg on a railing beside the canal water, with a bridge behind.

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Memorial to Rosa Luxemburg at the Landwehr Canal in Berlin, where her body was thrown in 1919

Memorial to Rosa Luxemburg in Berlin beside the Landwehr Canal, where she was murdered on 15 January 1919 together with Karl Liebknecht. The car in which they were being taken to prison was attacked. Rosa's body was thrown into the canal over this very railing, in which the

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Pope Francis: Chastity Is a Virtue Not to Be Confused with Sexual Abstinence

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After Omni magazine named Richard Feynman the smartest man in the world, his mother, Lucille Feynman, said: “If that is the smartest man in the world, God help us”

Painting of dark silhouettes of a tower and fortress walls against a sunset sky, a church with a pointed spire behind them and a grassy, stony slope in front.

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Carl Gustav Carus painted a view of the Imperial Castle in Eger in 1824

Imperial Castle, Eger. Carl Gustav Carus, 1824

Framed watercolour: a barefoot man in a tunic and trousers, seen from behind, with a staff and a wooden spoon at his belt, walks a path toward mountains under a cloudy sky.

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Watercolour of a barefoot wanderer in a mountain landscape, seen from behind

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