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Portraits of Tatyana Grigoryevna Gnedich (1907-1976) by Arthur Fonvizin and Nikolai Akimov, Late 1950s
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George Gordon Byron, *Don Juan*
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I want clothes for dogs to look like this
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A Display Devoted to Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature at the National Library of Kazakhstan
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Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI, on the day of his ordination to the priesthood in July 1951
Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI, on the day of his ordination to the priesthood in July 1951. Here Joseph is 24 years old. The Pope Emeritus is now 94
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Did Someone Say Gerontocracy?
Did someone say gerontocracy? In this photograph from the inauguration of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, in January 1961 we see Nancy Pelosi, familiar to us as Speaker of the US House of Representatives, who is still to this day engaged in key roles in
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The legendary Bette Davis (1908-1989) agreed to appear only on shows where she would be allowed to smoke
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Workers on a lift beside a giant mural portrait of a bearded man on a building facade
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World Trade Routes in 1490
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When You Have Lived a Whole Day Without Stories
When you have lived a whole day without Stories. Marguerite Gérard, 1804
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