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Corporal Joseph Trumpeldor asks to keep his weapons after losing an arm at Port Arthur

"I have one arm left; but this one is the right. Therefore, wishing to go on sharing the soldier's life of battle with my comrades, I beg Your Honour's intercession for the issue to me of a sabre and a revolver," wrote Lance-Corporal

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The Aesthetics of Jacques Tati

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We Are Tired of Addressing the Stars Formally; We Have Learned the Sweetness of Roaring

Velimir Khlebnikov

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A woman in a nun's habit among personages in crowns and diamonds: Alice of Battenberg, mother of Prince Philip and founder of the sisterhood of Greek Orthodox nuns, the Order of Martha and Mary, at the coronation of her daughter-in-law, Elizabeth II

A woman in a nun's habit among personages in crowns and diamonds: the founder of the sisterhood of Greek Orthodox nuns, the Order of Martha and Mary, Prince Philip's mother, Alice of Battenberg, at the coronation of her daughter-in-law, Elizabeth II. At birth Alice

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I saw "Living T." at the Theatre of Nations, with Dmitry Lysenkov playing Protasov, more or less

I saw "Living T." at the Theatre of Nations, with Dmitry Lysenkov playing Protasov, more or less. It is ostensibly a staging of Leo Tolstoy's play "The Living Corpse", but the T. is meant to stand for "Living Tolstoy". Accordingly, the protagonist

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Stereoscopic Photograph "Leo Tolstoy on the Terrace of His House at Yasnaya Polyana"

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Charles Aznavour on the Champ de Mars in front of the Eiffel Tower

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Archduke Franz Ferdinand Tries On the Costume of a Pharaoh of Egypt, 1894

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British Actor Michael Gambon, Who Played Dumbledore, Has Died

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The death of John Kipling in 1915 and his father Rudyard Kipling's poem of 1916

A medical board refused 16-year-old John Kipling conscription for the front in the First World War because of short-sightedness. The youth was burning to serve, as earlier he had dreamed of entering a military school. His influential father, by then the world-famous writer Rudyard Kipling, used

Painted dome and arched murals with figures on a vestibule ceiling, with a Czech inscription beneath the central arch.

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Alphonse Mucha designed the Lord Mayor's Hall in Prague's Municipal House in 1912

In 1912 Alphonse Mucha was asked to decorate the Municipal House in Prague, with its concert hall, gallery, restaurants and several drawing rooms. The artist produced murals, decoration, textiles and sketches for furniture for one of the rooms, the Lord Mayor's Hall.

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