Photo composite: a white dog's head with tongue out on a figure in a feathered hat, striped doublet and chain, against a red patterned background.

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White terrier in Renaissance dress: a humorous portrait

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The Renaissance Pets of the American Artist Diane Angstadt Wish You a Good Mood

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American Curial Cardinal Raymond Burke Has Definitely Won the Battle of Images with Rihanna

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The Mona Lisa in the New York Subway

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When you wear your very best to the occasion, come what may

Collage of two views of a half-timbered house corner: left, weathered beams and rough clay infill; right, the same beams with smooth white plaster and a new window.

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Corner of a half-timbered house before and after restoration: rough clay and white plaster

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They Knew How to Live...

Two-panel comic: two drawn figures shade their eyes and gaze into the distance. Captions read “I see Oasis!” and “It's a mirage...”, with group photos of musicians on the horizon.

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Meme punning on “oasis” and “mirage” with two cartoon figures and band photos

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It Is a Mirage

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Mood for the week: a porcelain Bolognese of the Meissen Manufactory, 1734

Mood for the week: a porcelain Bolognese of the Meissen Manufactory, 1734. Modelled by Johann Joachim Kändler, collection of the Louvre, donor a former consul of the Ottoman Empire in France, Isaac de Camondo

Triple gold ring with five stones, blue and pale ones at the sides and a green stone in the centre, photographed on a light background.

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Roman gold ring for three fingers, made in the 3rd century AD

Roman gold ring for three fingers. 3rd century AD.

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