A woman in a turban, wearing red and blue, sits on a camel with one arm raised. Putti and two half-naked men surround her; the gilded word ASIA appears among painted architecture.

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Allegory of Asia: a woman on a camel in a Baroque fresco

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Young Napoleon Bonaparte studying at Brienne in a 1910 illustration by Jean Onfroy de Bréville

The young Napoleon Bonaparte studying at Brienne. Jean Onfroy de Bréville, 1910. One of the most famous images of Napoleon

A man with swept-back gray hair, glasses and a blue jacket stands at a lectern before a blue World Web Forum backdrop; caption reads Heinrich XIII. Prinz Reuss.

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Heinrich XIII, Prince Reuss, speaking on stage at the World Web Forum

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What Napoleon Would Look Like, Had He Lived in Our Day

People in a bar raise beer mugs beneath a sign reading “Farewell 18th Amendment”, while a bartender in a light jacket holds a huge mug.

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Prohibition in the United States repealed on 5 December 1933 after thirteen years

The lady in the foreground is delighted by the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment, which had introduced Prohibition in the USA. The ban on the production, transportation and sale of alcohol had been in force in the States since 1920. On 5 December 1933 Prohibition was repealed by the ratification

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Admit it: a mopocycle is far cooler than a robot vacuum

Bronze statue of a youth in a long pleated tunic and headband, holding leather reins in his outstretched hand, against the warm yellow walls of a museum.

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The Charioteer of Delphi, bronze statue in a museum hall

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Men's Fashion and Ceremonial Dress of the Ottoman Empire from an Album Presented to the Future Emperor Alexander III in 1867

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Quotations from Great Men

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This fellow has been receiving his friends without leaving his bed since about 1653

This fellow has been receiving his friends without leaving his bed since about 1653. Beer, wine and tobacco as the marks of idle dissipation, already in the days of the Dutch Golden Age and in the lifetime of the artist Gesina ter Borch

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In the transept of the Catholic church of Saint-Mamboeuf, in the Burgundian Deanery of Charmont-Montbéliard, two monumental canvases hang facing each other: a Deposition of Christ dated 1902, and a painting of 1921 showing the burial of a soldier of the F

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