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Two satellite maps of the Netherlands side by side show differences in the outlines of the land and the sea coast.

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The coastline of the Netherlands in 1300 and 2023 in two comparative images

The Netherlands in 1300 and in 2023. This is what a successful battle with Poseidon looks like

Sketch in brown ink: dancing couples, women with tambourines, men in hats, children in the foreground, a dome and rooftops in the distance.

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Pen drawing of a folk festival with dancing before a city panorama

Sean Connery for Scottish Libraries magazine

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Sean Connery for Scottish Libraries magazine

If everyone is jumping, don't jump

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If everyone is jumping, don't jump

Whose Side Are You On?

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Whose Side Are You On?

Sunday School Lessons Were Not Wasted

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Sunday School Lessons Were Not Wasted

Apologies

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Apologies

Mannequins dressed as Darth Vader, the Emperor and red-robed guards stand behind a rope barrier beneath a painted cathedral ceiling and stained-glass windows.

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Star Wars costumes on display inside a medieval cathedral

Still Waiting for a Sitcom About This Woman

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Still Waiting for a Sitcom About This Woman

Sepia photograph of a gun barrel with spoked wheels and straps, beside two metal boxes on pack saddles with girths, set against crumpled paper. The number 270 is in the corner.

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Wheeled gun and equipment boxes on pack saddles, archival photograph

Horses in the service of the French army, 1890s: not only draught animals for guns of various kinds, but also horses whose harness was fitted with firearms

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Horses in the service of the French army, 1890s: not only draught animals for guns of various kinds, but also horses whose harness was fitted with firearms

Saint Sebastian, Raphael, before 1504

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Saint Sebastian, Raphael, before 1504

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