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Emilios Veakis as King Lear, 1938, National Theatre of Greece

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Pleased to Meet You

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Someone used a thirteenth-century Bible as a copybook

Black-and-white photo of a snowy plain with a tent and a dark hut, and a wind turbine mast on the right. A man in fur clothing crouches by the tent, a dog beside him.

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Camp on the ice: a tent, a hut and a wind turbine, a man with a dog

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The Meteorologist-Geophysicist Yevgeny Fyodorov Builds a Snow Pavilion for Magnetic Measurements on a Drifting Ice Floe in the Arctic

Oil painting detail: a bearded warrior in scale armor drags a woman in a white shift; a crying infant and figures in red reach out on the right, while swordsmen stand at left.

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Detail of a history painting: an armored warrior leads away a woman amid children

Old engraving: an eagle flies above a city, a tortoise falls on the head of a seated old man, and two men on the right point at him.

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Death of Aeschylus in Syracuse from a tortoise dropped by an eagle

Aeschylus died on a visit to Syracuse by accident: an eagle dropped a large tortoise on his head. Eagles do this to break the shell on rocks, but this time, in place of a rock, there turned out to be the bald head of the great dramatist

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I seem to have missed the moment when the politicians' dress code for official appearances began to admit such items as sunglasses

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Katharine Hepburn, aged 80, clearing snow from the roof of her New York townhouse, 1988

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No Better Combo Than Einstein and Mr Bean Could Possibly Be Devised

No better combo than Einstein and Mr Bean could possibly be devised. Any thoughts as to why they are there?

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Winter in Zamoskvorechye in the 1990s

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