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NBC's 1980s miniseries based on Ray Bradbury's “The Martian Chronicles”

In the 1980s NBC screened a miniseries based on Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles", about the settlement of Mars by Earthlings who have left their home planet because of nuclear war. Having made a technological leap after the Second World War, humanity ends by destroying life

Comic panel: Donald Duck with outstretched arms faces two ducks in green and pink dresses, chained at the ankles.

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Donald Duck and a New Shipment of Slave Girls from Chaldea in a Comic Panel

Donald Duck and the beautiful slave girls of Chaldea. These days he would already be sitting through a hearing in the Senate

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On the eve of the Italy v Spain match at Euro 2024, supporters of the Italian national team unfurled an Italian shirt, apparently of American size, on the Spanish Steps in Rome

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Yury Nikulin, Yevgeny Morgunov and Georgy Vitsin on the set of the film “Kidnapping, Caucasian Style”, 1966

Photo by Oleg Mertsedin

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When you scroll through that friend's reels first thing in the morning

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Tchaikovsky's Musical Autograph

Black-and-white photograph of a woman in dark clothing behind a window with her palms raised to the glass, a wrought-iron balcony railing in front.

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Edith Piaf at the window of her last home on Boulevard Lannes in the 1950s

Édith Piaf at her last home on the Boulevard Lannes. 1950s

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If Beethoven is a miracle among men, Bach is a miracle among the gods

The Italian composer Gioachino Rossini

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Charlotte Rampling in 1973, photographed by Helmut Newton in front of Lucas Cranach the Elder's diptych "Adam and Eve" of 1528 in the Uffizi Gallery

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Tom Bombadil in Amazon's new season of "The Lord of the Rings" and Tom Bombadil in the 1991 Leningrad Television play "The Keepers"

Tom Bombadil in Amazon's new season of "The Lord of the Rings" and Tom Bombadil in the 1991 Leningrad Television play "The Keepers". The Briton Rory Kinnear against the Soviet actor Sergei Parshin

A woman with short blonde hair in a light quilted jacket raises her hand at a table set with glasses.

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Marlene Dietrich at a party in New York in 1967, aged 66

Marlene Dietrich in 1967. A photograph from a party in New York: the diva is 66

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Arnold's finger method for multiplying by nine and the Chinese rule

An unexpected method of multiplication is offered by Arnold from "Hey Arnold!". The method works for multiplying by 9 and, it would seem, corresponds to an old Chinese rule of multiplying on the fingers: To obtain the result of multiplying by nine, hold both hands open and fold