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In the End, Harry Clarke Managed to Create Illustrations Sufficiently Ghastly for Edgar Allan Poe's "Tales of Mystery and Imagination"
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Friday Evening Be Like
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Truth and Mercy, Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, 1745
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On 4 November 1956 Soviet troops entered Hungary to suppress the uprising against the communist government that had begun in October
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I am certain the Good Lord is sending some sign by lighting up the House on the Embankment like this
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London's City Gates, 1741
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The English ballerina Margot Fonteyn (1919-1991) in an evening gown eighteen years her senior
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A Kiss Beneath an Umbrella, by the Czech Artist Luděk Marold, 1895
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Damascus, 1677
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The Cretan Labyrinth in a fifteenth-century Florentine engraving is, unexpectedly, shown as a building with very high walls
The Cretan Labyrinth in a fifteenth-century Florentine engraving is, unexpectedly, shown as a building with very high walls. The Minotaur himself does not appear in Tommaso Ginuera's engraving; he is understood to be somewhere inside
NB! · The East · Art
Russian Troops Take Samarkand
Russian troops take Samarkand. Nikolai Karazin, 1868