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Dorothy Dene (1859-1899), born Ada Alice Pullen, was an English stage actress and artist’s model for the painter Frederick Leighton and some of his associates. Dene was considered to have a classical face and figure and a flawless complexion. Her height was above average and she had long arms, large violet eyes and abundant golden chestnut hair.

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Perebendya by Volodymyr Masyk, 1961

Perebendya is a main character of the poem by Taras Shevchenko about the blind itinerant Ukrainian bard.

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We are trees, since even dead we are held by our roots.

— Oleksandr Bryhynets’