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The light has gone out of my life: a diary entry by Theodore Roosevelt

On 14 February 1884 the future American president Theodore Roosevelt lost his mother, who died of typhoid fever at the age of 48, and his wife, aged 22, who died of acute kidney failure after giving birth to a daughter.

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If anyone finds the constitutional amendments not frightening enough, I suggest a look at this ghastly automaton of the 1870s, which recalls the work of the Brothers Quay

The "Naturally Crawling Doll" is held by the Smithsonian Institution and by the American Museum of Natural History, where the action of the film "Night at the Museum" unfolded. Had this monster come to life, the film could safely have been transferred from family comedy to

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If One Must Stroll the Afterlife in Sandals, Then With Closed Toes

If one must stroll the afterlife in sandals, then with closed toes. Sandals and toe stalls of sheet gold, found in the tomb of the three foreign wives of Pharaoh Thutmose III: Menhet, Menwi and Merti. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Auguste Rodin, The Hand of God, 1907

Auguste Rodin, The Hand of God, 1907. Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Do you remember the cups of precious metals and exotic shells in the Kremlin Armoury?

Do you remember the cups of precious metals and exotic shells in the Kremlin Armoury? Well, the Metropolitan Museum holds a vessel made of a gold-mounted nut shell from the Seychelles, fashioned in the sixteenth century by Viennese craftsmen

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And now, the pride bulletin

And now, the pride bulletin. Sergei Gordeev, the owner of PIK, has lost a million dollars to the art historian Ilyin, having maintained that he was the richest man at the Guggenheim Foundation dinner.

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Jennifer Lopez and the lid of an alabaster jar in the form of a royal woman's head in a Nubian-style wig, reign of Akhenaten, 1340 BC, Metropolitan Museum

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Emily Blunt and a Golden Crown of the Ptolemaic Era, 2nd Century BC, from the Brooklyn Museum

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Salma Hayek and a Portrait from a Romano-Egyptian Mummy of the 1st Century AD in the Metropolitan Museum

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Kim Kardashian and the Predynastic Female Figure of 3500 BC from the Brooklyn Museum

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Egyptologist and Senior Curator of Ancient Egypt and the Ancient Mediterranean at National Museums Scotland Dr Margaret Maitland has put together a wildly cool selection of Met Gala looks and the artefacts of antiquity associated with them

Egyptologist and Senior Curator of Ancient Egypt and the Ancient Mediterranean at National Museums Scotland Dr Margaret Maitland has put together a wildly cool selection of Met Gala looks and the artefacts of antiquity associated with them. For example, Lady Gaga and the dancing girls from the Tomb of Nebamun,

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The Twelve Chairs mentions a haughty Vanderbilt lady from a French fashion magazine

The Twelve Chairs mentions a haughty Vanderbilt lady from a French fashion magazine. “The glossy photograph showed the daughter of the American billionaire Vanderbilt in an evening gown. There were furs and feathers, silk and pearls, a cut of extraordinary lightness and a dizzying coiffure.” In other photographs the Vanderbilt