A book page with Francis Picabia’s text on Cubism and Dada.

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Francis Picabia’s manifesto on Cubism and Dada in the collection “100 Art Manifestos”

Francis Picabia, Who Knows Nothing, Nothing, Nothing. From the excellent book “100 Art Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists”, which brings together the manifestos of creators of every stripe over the last 100 years

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Tatyana Tolstaya and the Boiled Mushrooms

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Benedict XVI, 95, who abdicated in 2013, photographed in the Vatican gardens

The 95-year-old Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI strolling through the Vatican Gardens, in one of his most recent photographs. As you can see from this picture from the Joseph Ratzinger Foundation, Benedict, though very frail, is nonetheless in tolerable health for a man of his venerable age. Let me

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The Delft Gunpowder Explosion of 12 October 1654, in Which Carel Fabritius, Creator of the Legendary "Goldfinch", Perished

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The French as Hungry Rats in the Command of Village Elderwoman Vasilisa

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Vasilisa Kozhina and the Partisan War Against Napoleon in Smolensk Governorate

The elder of a certain village in the Sychyovka district led a party of prisoners, taken by the peasants, into town. In his absence the villagers caught several more Frenchmen and at once brought them to the elder's wife, Vasilisa, to be dispatched whither they ought to go.

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All the same, humanity would probably have come out ahead had the young Joseph become a priest in Georgia

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Saint Yutvara, slandered by her stepmother and beheaded by Bana, and Herber Monastery

The British martyr Saint Utvara fell victim to the treachery of her stepmother. After her father's death the pious girl continued to lead a righteous life, fasting and giving alms. One day her breast began to ache, and her stepmother advised her to apply soft cheese to it,

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There are two types of people: those who do what they themselves want, and those who do what others want

Georges Clemenceau, Prime Minister of France

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The English ballerina Margot Fonteyn (1919-1991) in an evening gown eighteen years her senior

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Sisters, by the Finnish-Swedish artist Elin Kleopatra Danielson-Gambogi, 1891

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