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Okumura Masanobu: Hanshozuku Bijin Soroi

Mizuno Toshikata, c. 1895

How Beauty Looking Back reflects Japanese history

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Flags That Look Alike

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10 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time

Title: Senate Square, St. Petersburg, December 14, 1825: repression of the troop mutiny - watercolor by Carl Ivanovitch Kollman, 1825 depicts Decembrist uprising clashing with cavalry, with spectators watching. (new style December 26, 1825) Europe. Saint

8 of the Largest Empires in History

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Was Santa Claus a Real Person?

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

The Cheshire Cat is a fictional cat from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. (Alice in Wonderland)

11 Banned Books Through Time

Los Angeles Police Department wanted flyer on Elizabeth Short, aka the "Black Dahlia," who was brutally murdered in January 1947. The FBI supported the Los Angeles Police Department in the case, including by identifying Short through her fingerprints that

America’s 5 Most Notorious Cold Cases (Including One You May Have Thought Was Already Solved)

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How Beauty Looking Back reflects Japanese history

How Beauty Looking Back reflects Japanese history

Hishikawa Moronobu's Beauty Looking Back exemplifies the changing lifestyles,...

Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

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Okumura Masanobu: Hanshozuku Bijin Soroi

Okumura Masanobu: Hanshozuku Bijin Soroi

Hanshozuku Bijin Soroi, ukiyo-e color woodcut by Okumura Masanobu, Tokugawa...

Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, given by Mrs. Anne Archbold

Mizuno Toshikata, c. 1895

Mizuno Toshikata, c. 1895

Ukiyo-e print depicting the art of the tea ceremony by Mizuno Toshikata, c....

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