A wooden tripod sculpture with a perforated brass disc stands in a hall with golden walls, a chandelier and a frescoed vault. Chairs and a lamp sit on pedestals.

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Contemporary design objects in a palace hall with a painted ceiling

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On the second day of their Italian visit, King Charles III and Camilla toured the Colosseum

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The Vestibule of a Residential House in Old Bucharest

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Iranian silver wine cup with a griffin holds 1.5 litres of wine

An Iranian silver wine cup with a griffin holds 1.5 litres of wine. Its age: more than 2,500 years

Detail of a painting: a skeleton in a brown cloak and wide-brimmed hat with a large plume. Behind it are pikes and an armored rider.

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Skeleton in a cloak and plumed hat before a battlefield

A skeleton in a plumed hat and orange cloak rides a horse across a battlefield, with pikemen and a cannon behind and ravens in the foreground.

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In 1911 Edgar Bundy depicted Death as a mounted general on a battlefield

Death in the guise of a general on horseback on the battlefield. Edgar Bundy, 1911

Marble relief: men sit at a laid table, a woman in the foreground holds a dish, and a dancing figure appears at right. Columns, arches and a staircase recede in perspective behind.

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Relief of a banquet scene set against arcades and columns

Hand-coloured engraving “Caisse d'incubation”: an incubator box in section and shaped as brooding hens, with a crowned coat of arms above.

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Incubator shaped like a brooding hen in a description from a 1786 book

An eighteenth-century incubator: I came across a description of an egg-hatching machine in a book of 1786. To lend it a harmonious appearance, the author proposes that it be made in the shape of a broody hen. Yet another confirmation that the technologies of the past were far

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Will I Really Be Refused the Vote?

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David Lynch Holds the Firewood with His Father

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Caravaggio's "Sacrifice of Isaac" on the Cover of Kierkegaard's "Fear and Trembling"

Caravaggio's "Sacrifice of Isaac" on the cover of Kierkegaard's "Fear and Trembling". A marriage made in heaven

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