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Henry VIII
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This Is What Santa Maria sopra Minerva Looks Like Inside
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The first tier of the Temple of Minerva remained underground and is used as a cellar, as can be seen from a model in Assisi's rather neglected archaeological museum, which looks more like a mere warehouse of Roman finds
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The Church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, with its Roman portico of the 1st century BC, in the Italian town of Assisi
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Elegant Skating Positions from a Manual of 1830
Elegant skating positions from a manual of 1830. What is a rink without a hat and an umbrella?
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Gaston of Orléans was also a naturalist: here is part of his collection at Blois, where he laid out a botanical garden in which the eminent botanists Robert Morison and Paul Reneaulme worked on the classification of plants
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A cat of soft-paste porcelain from the Saint-Cloud manufactory of the late seventeenth century has simply found out what she is worth
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In 1878
In 1878 Isaac Salkinson translated "Romeo and Juliet" into Hebrew as "Ram and Yael". Not long ago a copy of this edition, popular in the 19th century, was sold at a Jewish auction for $290, against a starting price of $100
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Socrates of Ephesus
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A week of leave, taken to finish my first work since the dissertation, has come to an end
A week of leave, taken to finish my first work since the dissertation, has come to an end. I never did finish: there are 4 chapters written, and 8 in draft. Is that not a tragedy! Do get distracted along with me: https://clck.ru/AWjYs
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