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New York NY/ USA- November 23, 2018 Hordes of shoppers throng the Macy's Herald Square flagship store in New York looking for bargains on the day after Thanksgiving, Black Friday.

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A Factory Interior, watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and white goache on wove paper by unknown artist, c. 1871-91; in the Yale Center for British Art. Industrial Revolution England

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Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1855), founder of the house of Rothschild; lithograph by Friedrich Lieder, c. 1830.

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Rural Irish landscape, Sligo, Ireland.

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Engraving by Cosomo Colombini (d. 1812) after a Leonardo self portrait. Ca. 1500.

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Woman tied to a ducking stool, a method of punishment by means of humiliation, beating, or death. (cucking stool)

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Nino Ricci

Canadian author

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Canadian literature

In Canadian literature: Fiction
Nino Ricci, a Canadian of Italian descent, portrays the long journey from Italy to Canada in his trilogy Lives of the Saints (1990), In a Glass House (1993), and Where She Has Gone (1997). In her lyrical and meditative novels Plainsong (1993), The Mark of…
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Toronto

In Toronto: Cultural life
…novelist Rohinton Mistry, Italian-Canadian novelist Nino Ricci, and Sri Lankan-born novelist and poet Michael Ondaatje, whose novel In the skin of a Lion, about the immigrant experience in 1920s Toronto, is one of the most iconic books set in the city.
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