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A cup of water and a pink flower in a painting by Francisco de Zurbarán
Good morning from Francisco de Zurbarán. Let us begin the day quietly, with thoughts as plain as a mug of water and a mood like a tender pink flower
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Masonic Gates with a Secret, from the Book An English Arcadia 1600-1990
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Cupid and Psyche, 4th century AD, Ostia Antica
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The Dashing Equerry Who Captured the Queen's Heart: The English Press Tells of Elizabeth II's Secret "Beloved", Lord Plunket
The dashing equerry who captured the Queen's heart: the English press tells of Elizabeth II's secret "beloved", Patrick Plunket, Baron Plunket. He served the Queen for 25 years and kept the secret of their "love" to the end of his life
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A new list of patriotic works by contemporary writers, recommended by the Ministry of Education for extracurricular reading: Zakhar Prilepin is on it, naturally
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These horses are sunning themselves this summer on behalf of all of us
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Pears, Paul Cézanne, 1879
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Of the 80,200 roubles required in 1898-1899 to resettle 7,300 Doukhobor peasants in Canada, Leo Tolstoy contributed 34,200 roubles, taken from the publication of his novel "Resurrection"
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Thank God for That!
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As a history graduate, Mark Rutte could not simply walk past a stack of documents left lying about in a White House corridor
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