Sepia photograph of an infant figure wearing a crown with a cross, swaddled in cloth covered with jewels, standing on a cushion before a draped backdrop.

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Santo Bambino of Aracoeli: figure of the Christ Child in crown and jewels

A crowned figure in blue and gold robes stands under an arch inscribed Ecclesia, with a group of people under a smaller arch on each side.

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Ecclesia with the clergy and the laity in a miniature beneath the image of Mother Nature

Right beneath the image of Mother Nature is Mother Church, Ecclesia, with the clergy on her right hand and the laity on her left. What more is there to say? Mother Nature and Mother Church are always side by side.

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A Drawing from an Eleventh-Century Scroll Containing the Paschal Chant Exultet iam angelica turba coelorum

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Lenin Sounds Proud in Arabic

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An Idea for a Start-Up

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This Monster: Jean Marais in 1946

A deep rectangular stone-lined pool among the ruins of an ancient city, with shrub branches hanging over it.

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Ancient fish fermentation pools and the export of fish sauce from Chersonesos

Many ancient port cities have rows of such deep basins. They were used to produce a paste of fermented fish. From here, from Chersonesos, fish sauce was shipped to many countries

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What marvellous hair Mary Magdalene has 💛

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Russian window surrounds on an Italian garden pavilion at the Villa Garibaldi in Palermo, designed by the great nineteenth-century architect Giovanni Battista Filippo Basile

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The young King Philippe of Belgium (in 2013 the living King Albert II abdicated in favour of his son) with his wife Mathilde (turquoise sashes) visiting Queen Margrethe II of Denmark (purple sash)

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How to Improve One's Looks in the Eighteenth Century

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