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The simplest answer to why I do not regard comparison with Oscar Wilde as a compliment
The simplest answer to why I do not regard comparison with Oscar Wilde as a compliment. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1895.
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By and Large, You Need Only Two Emotions
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On the Front Page of Every German Newspaper: The Robbery of the Green Vault in Dresden
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Anastasia Romanova and the Selfie
Anastasia Romanova and a selfie. The figure in the background is not a ghost, but one of the household, caught moving through the long exposure
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Today is the day of Leo Tolstoy's death
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Bronze relief of seven men sharing one coat, set in a brick wall
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You on Friday and You on Monday
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You may have my number You can take my name But you'll never have my head
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Two men greet each other by pressing foreheads and noses together
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Head from a statue of Emperor Vespasian found at the forum of Hippo in Algeria
A rather grim portrait of the birthday boy: the head of Emperor Vespasian, born on 17 November AD 9 and died in AD 79. This fragment of a statue of Vespasian was found in the forum of Hippo in Algeria and set into the wall of its museum. Not the
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Don't Think Anything of It When I Vanish for a Couple of Days
Don't think anything of it when I vanish for a couple of days. I was merely withdrawing to the dacha, in token of the end of the working week
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Robert Fludd depicted the void before the creation of the world as a black square in 1607
Fludd's Black Square, which is just how the English thinker and philosopher of the 16th and 17th centuries, Robert Fludd, depicted in 1607 the emptiness of the world before its creation. Darkness, the infinite nothing. On all four sides of the square runs the inscription Et sic in