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Have you noticed that Napoleon, in his portraits from before the imperial period, looks like a completely different man? Take, for example, the portraits by Antoine-Jean Gros, Napoleon's official painter: "Napoleon on the Bridge at Arcole" of 1796 and "Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul"
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Magdalena Luther, daughter of Martin Luther. Portrait by Lucas Cranach the Elder. The girl lived only 13 years
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This is what a sixteen-year age gap looks like. Lev Nikolayevich and Sofya Andreyevna Tolstoy
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"I recall Chaadaev's words that an artist may be as clever as you please, but if he does not know the secret of his time, he is no artist. And what is the secret of time? It seems to me it is, above all, the real alignment
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Confess: what caught your eye first?
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From Vatican news: Pope Francis did not celebrate today's scheduled Divine Mercy Sunday Mass in Saint Peter's Basilica; Archbishop Fisichella celebrated it in his stead. The Pope attended the service seated in an armchair. The change was occasioned by the pain in Francis I's
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The meeting of 85-year-old Francis I and 75-year-old Patriarch Kirill on 14 June in Jerusalem is cancelled. It was to have been the second audience between the heads of the two churches since their personal meeting in Havana on 12 February 2016. To grasp the importance
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In case you failed to recognise him, these photographs of 1895-1900 show the young Winston Churchill
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Elizabeth II turns 96 today. Many happy returns, and long may she reign!