Kate Middleton, Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, married Britain’s Prince William in 2011 at Westminster Abbey. She is the mother to Prince George, the third in line to the throne, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.
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Sometimes, one accidental encounter can turn a regular day into an unusual adventure. For example, you can see a tree wearing jeans or an Egyptian sphinx in someone’s yard. At least you’ll have something to tell your friends later! We’ve found people who saw something really unusual and then shared it with the world.
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Sleeping Venus (also known as Sleeping Venus with Putti) is a c. 1603 painting by Annibale Carracci held by the Musée Condé in Chantilly, Oise, France. This oil painting measures 190x328cm. It depicts Venus sleeping with her arm above her head as putti frolic around her. Carracci painted Sleeping Venus for Odoardo Farnese. Giovanni Battista Agucchi wrote an ekphrasis of ...
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When ranking the most famous paintings of all time, we have to realize that the act of painting is an ancient medium, dating as far back as 40,000 years ago, when early humans applied ochre and charcoal to cave walls to create images of animals or stencils of their own handprints. It was, in other words, present at the birth ...
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Pearl Ball is a novel written by Sadegh Hedayat. This book was written in 1326, but was not allowed to be published during the author’s lifetime. The first edition of the book dates back to 1979, when it was published underground. The book was originally published under the pseudonym Hadi Sedaghat.
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