Historic Painting: Maslenitsa by Boris Kustodiev, 1919.
This amazing painting depicts the Russian winter holiday festival just before Lent.
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This beautiful room says a lot about the insecurity of Germany in the years before World War I.
Behind the Scenes: Star Trek and the Vietnam War (Part II).
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Killing books: The sack of the University of Louvain library and its modern echoes.
In 1914, the Germans torched one of the great libraries of Europe. AI companies are doing something similar today.