Storming the Tuileries, 10 August 1792 (detail) by L. Bang and O. Lorch
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There really is a whole genre of Napoleon standing in the Tuileries looking nonchalant during the French Revolution artwork
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Air India travel poster for Rome, Italy (c. 1950).
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The Lion Monument or the Lion of Lucerne, is a rock relief in Lucerne, Switzerland, designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen and hewn in 1820–21 by Lukas Ahorn.
It commemorates the Swiss Guards who were massacred in 1792 during the French Revolution, when revolutionaries stormed the Tuileries Palace in Paris.
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The Uses of History, 7 – From France 1812 to Russia, 1917, 4
The Uses of History, 7 – From France 1812 to Russia, 1917, 4
(Image credit: Web Gallery of Art)
Following the failure of the Decembrist Revolt in 1825 and the accession of Tsar Nicholas I, the vast Russian Empire was locked into extreme reactionarianism. The reformist elements were suppressed and no license was permitted in expressing contrary views to Divine Right for the Tsar under God’s anointing, aristocratic privilege as its corollary, as well as the…
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Goodbye
Carry Santa Sede flags in your hearts always.
Au revoir
Portez toujours les drapeaux de Santa Sede dans vos cœurs.
Walter Thurnherr et Staff Alain Berset
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imagine one of these fuckers
pulling up with
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I think you answered this earlier, but are small dog breeds shorter than big or medium dog breeds in this universe?
Small dogs are usually on the shorter side of average and bigger breeds tend to be taller, but the difference isn't massive, they're all within the range of normal human height variation.
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