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"Bathing of a Red Horse" by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin and a print from the 2005 "Mazda Masterpiece" advertisement

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And that is before he has seen the new fares

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Thomas Mann and His Poodle Niko

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Harper’s Bazar, 19 February 1870

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How Many Times Must It Be Said: Snails Do Not Carry the Plague!

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Stills from the film version of the Vakhtangov Theatre's production “Paul I”, about the complex and enigmatic life of the Emperor, which holds a great many secrets, with Alexander Oleshko in the title role

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Let us speak of how Peter Jackson introduced into the plot a middle-management orc who kept arguing with Saruman about the realism of the output targets at the orc factory

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The Geography of the Smoker and the Geography of the Healthy Man

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The Conversion of Saint Paul, Laurent de La Hyre, 1637

The Conversion of Saint Paul, Laurent de La Hyre, 1637. Notre-Dame de Paris

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A 1608 engraving on the choice between study and entertainment

Study or amusements. 1608. A choice for which we have failed to prepare in 400 years

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A Very Bad Joke

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Niko Pirosmani in the courtyard of Dover Street Market, which has settled in the Marais, in the Hôtel de Coulanges, where Madame de Sévigné once lived