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Anonyme, Algérie, Jeune Femme aux voiles, c.1870
via Verdeau
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Paul BurtyHaviland , Portrait de femme, New York,1900s
from RMN
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It took more than 700 years, but in 1939 archaeologist Dorothy Garrod became the first female professor at Oxbridge – nearly a decade before women were even allowed to take degrees at Cambridge University. ALICE HUTTON reports on the opening of the first permanent exhibition honouring one of...
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Summer Reading on Better Book Titles!
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The potash mining complex outside of Salihorsk, Belarus.
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“Ameranthropoides loysi” (De Loys’ Ape) is allegedly a large primate encountered by François De Loys in South America. Apart from testimony of claimed eyewitnesses, the only evidence of the animal is one photograph. Controversy continues about the authenticity of the animal, with critics contending that the de Loys’ Ape is a hoax and that the photograph shows only a posed spider monkey carcass, though cryptozoology enthusiasts and a few others support the notion that Loys did indeed encounter an unknown primate. MORE.
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