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A strange science all the same, this physiognomy of yours

Drone view of a cleared strip of reddish earth for a road crossing green Amazon forest and a river.

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Amazon forest cleared for a road to the COP30 climate summit

The Amazon forest is being felled to build a road to an environmental summit. This world has no chance 🤦🏿‍♀️

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Admission to the Orwell Events

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Fan Fiction About Me and Ivleeva Is the Finest Thing Written in 1851

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Peter Ustinov, Maggie Smith and David Niven in Egypt during the filming of Death on the Nile, based on the novel of the same name by Agatha Christie, 1978

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The Naked Party

The Naked Party. The Beginning

Black-and-white photograph of six young men in suits sitting and standing on stone steps near an iron fence.

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American university students in a photograph from the 1950s

The 1950s. Students of an American university whose name may not be mentioned

NB! · Archive · Faith · Art

The Holy Trinity from the Fifteenth-Century Book of Hours of the Earl of Ormond

A bearded man takes a mirror selfie wrapped in a grey blanket, with a huge fluffy turban-like shape on his head. Below, a Wikipedia-style caption about the portrait of Mehmed II.

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Joke selfie in a blanket under the caption of Bellini's portrait of Mehmed II

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The March 1917 issue of Vogue, when revolution was raging in Russia

A model in a white draped gown with a slit and feathered wings walks on parquet. Gilded doors and a chandelier stand behind her; spectators sit at right.

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Model in a white gown with feathered wings at a show in a gilded salon

Statuette of a nude woman with reddish hair seated in an open shell, in a museum display case.

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Greetings to women on 8 March with wishes of love, well-being and a spring mood

Sweet girls, lovely women, wonderful ladies! Congratulations on 8 March! I wish you love, prosperity and a springtime mood, and may you never forget your divine significance! Everything most beautiful ever created in this world has been inspired by you!