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Summer Scene by Bazille
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Summer Scene by Bazille

An 1869 oil on canvas, Summer Scene (aka Bathers), by Frédéric Bazille (1841-1870), the French impressionist painter. Bazille's innovation here is to take the traditional study of the male nude and make it into a contemporary scene of weekend...
Reconstruction of the Old Summer Palace, Beijing
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Reconstruction of the Old Summer Palace, Beijing

Digital reconstruction of the Yuanming Yuan palace complex, known in the Western World as the Old Summer Palace. This reconstruction depicts Haiyantang ("The Palace of Calm Seas"), a two-story western-style palace with a magnificent water...
Summer's Day by Morisot
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Summer's Day by Morisot

An 1879 oil on canvas painting, Summer's Day, by Berthe Morisot (1841-95), the French impressionist painter. This is a scene of the artificial boating lake in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, then a popular weekend spot for the capital's fashionable...
In Summer, Kiowa
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In Summer, Kiowa

In Summer, Kiowa, photograph of three Kiowa men by F. A. Rinehart, 1898. The colorful clothing of the men suggests how the Kiowa's supernatural trickster figure Saynday's outfits would have been imagined. Boston Public Library.
Summer Tricilium of Villa Arianna at Stabiae
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Summer Tricilium of Villa Arianna at Stabiae

The summer triclinium (dining room) of Villa Ariann at Stabiae (Castellammare di Stabia, Italy) with nine ample windows.
The Athenian Calendar
Article by Christopher Planeaux

The Athenian Calendar

The term “Athenian Calendar” (also called the “Attic Calendar”) has become somewhat of a misnomer, since Ancient Athenians never really used just one method to reckon the passage of time. Athenians, especially from the 3rd Century BCE forward...
Gioachino Rossini
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Gioachino Rossini

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) was an Italian composer of around 40 operas, including the comic operas The Italian Girl in Algiers and The Barber of Seville. Rossini championed melody and beautiful singing over operatic drama, rattling out...
Reign of Terror
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Reign of Terror

The Reign of Terror, or simply the Terror (la Terreur), was a climactic period of state-sanctioned violence during the French Revolution (1789-99), which saw the public executions and mass killings of thousands of counter-revolutionary 'suspects'...
Mesopotamia: Crash Course World History #3
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Mesopotamia: Crash Course World History #3

In which John presents Mesopotamia, and the early civilizations that arose around the Fertile Crescent. Topics covered include the birth of territorial kingdoms, empires, Neo-Assyrian torture tactics, sacred marriages, ancient labor practices...
Lindow Man
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Lindow Man

The Lindow Man (officially Lindow III) is the top half of a male body, found preserved in a peat bog in Cheshire, England. The peat bogs at Lindow Moss date back to the last ice age and were formed by holes of melting ice; they are now a...
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