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What to Do When Telegram Is Blocked
What to do when Telegram is blocked. Francisco Goya, 1820, Doctor Arrieta knows how to help
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Armpit hair is rather unusual in sixteenth-century sculpture
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A relief of 1500-1504 by Tullio Lombardo from the Basilica of Saint Anthony in Padua
A relief of 1500-1504 by Tullio Lombardo from the Basilica of Saint Anthony in Padua. An interesting detail on the figure of the repentant son: hairy armpits. Note how the curls have been worked.
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A Shoe Seller Displaying Sample Wares in an Eighteenth-Century Print
A commonplace sight of the eighteenth century: a shoe-seller with her samples. Little golden slippers, fur-trimmed shoes and lace-ups, boots, mules and hefty brogues. A pair of the slutanskie ones for me, please
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All I Can Say to Roskomnadzor
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The Conductor of the Monkey Orchestra, Meissen, Mid-Eighteenth Century
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Children’s shoes left on Bishop Erkembodo’s tomb in Saint-Omer Cathedral
Parents of crippled children leave children's shoes on the tomb of the medieval bishop Erkembode in the cathedral of Saint-Omer, hoping for the saint's intercession for their little ones' recovery. Erkembode's feast day is 12 April
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If you have listened to too many tales about Gogol and fear being buried alive, this invention of 1843 is for you!
If you have listened to too many tales about Gogol and fear being buried alive, this invention of 1843 is for you! A splendid coffin with air holes and a door that opens from the inside
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An altarpiece group in a small church on the border of Saxony and Bohemia strongly recalled Grant Wood's American Gothic, only with a crucifix in place of the pitchfork
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Monument to the GAZ AA Polutorka Truck for Veteran Motorists in Alma-Ata
A monument to the polutorka in Alma-Ata. Caption: the GAZ-AA lorry, a symbol of the labour and martial glory of veteran motorists. The vehicle was erected by Akan Kamelbekov, Honoured Innovator of Kazakhstan
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With this hand Francis Xavier baptised between 100,000 and 700,000 people in Asia in the 16th century; at times he was too exhausted to lift a finger
With this hand Francis Xavier baptised between 100,000 and 700,000 people in Asia in the 16th century; at times he was too exhausted to lift a finger. The hand that brought so many souls to Rome has itself found rest here
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