The Cramps were an American punk band, formed in 1976
Truman Capote’s masked ball, at New York City’s Plaza Hotel on November 28, 1966
Emaciated Horse by Gong Kai – ink on paper handscroll, 29.9 x 56.9 cm. After Mongol Kublai Khan, leading the Yuan Dynasty, conquered the Southern Song Dynasty of China in 1279, Gong Kai remained a Song loyalist and refused to serve Kublai’s government. This painting of an emaciated horse represents his own poverty-stricken conditions that he imposed on himself since he refused to serve as a government official.
From the 1940s until the 1960s, Lillian Bassman worked as a fashion photographer for Junior Bazaar and later at Harper’s Bazaar
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The Codex Manesse, or Große Heidelberger Liederhandschrift is an illuminated manuscript in codex form copied and illustrated between ca. 1304 - 1340. The codex was produced in Zürich at the request of the Manesse family. It is the single most comprehensive source for the texts of love songs in Middle High German, representing 140 poets, several of whom were famous rulers.
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Saint Apollinaris (Italian: Apollinare) is a Syrian saint, whom the Roman Martyrology describes as “a bishop who, according to tradition, while spreading among the nations the unsearchable riches of Christ, led his flock as a good shepherd and honoured the Church of Classis near Ravenna by a glorious martyrdom.
Saint Francis of Xavier was a Navarrese Catholic missionary of Basque origin. One of the first Jesuits, he was one of seven first Jesuits who dedicated themselves to the service of God. Xavier was a papal legate, but he was also under commission from the Portuguese king when he arrived in Goa. The father of Christian Missionary Movement, Xavier tried to convert the Indians, Batarians, Filipinos and the Japanese in the Far East, and died en route to China in 1552.
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The Book of Durrow (Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS A. 4. 15. (57)) is a 7th century illuminated manuscript in the Insular style made either at Durrow Abbey near Durrow in County Offaly Ireland, or in Northumbria in Northern England.
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View from the Window at Le Gras, the first successful permanent photograph created by Nicéphore Niépce in 1826, Saint-Loup-de-Varennes. Captured on 20 × 25 cm oil-treated bitumen. Due to the 8-hour exposure, the buildings are illuminated by the sun from both right and left.
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