An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything.

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Richard the Lionheart receives the Lord's Supper in the Hagia Sophia

Gaspare Fossati

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The blooming garden

Vincent

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NYC

Thomas Zhuang

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Lago di Garda

Salvador Dalí

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The setting Sun

Marc Chagall

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Word of the Day

seigniorage 

(also seignorage) 

noun 

profit made by a government by issuing currency, especially the difference between the face value of coins and their production costs. 

• historical the Crown's right to a percentage on bullion brought to a mint for coining. 

• historical a thing claimed by a sovereign or feudal superior as a prerogative. 

origin 

late Middle English: from Old French seignorage, from seigneur (see seigneur).

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Woman and Screen (La Femme au Paravent)

Artist: Henri Matisse (French, 1869 - 1954)

Date: 1919

Medium: Oil on canvas (later mounted to cardboard and fiberboard)

Collection: Barnes Collection Art Institute, Philadelphia, PA, United States

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Word of the Day

intendant 

noun

1 the administrator of an opera house or theater. 

2 mainly historical 

a title given to a high-ranking official or administrator, especially in France, Spain, Portugal, or one of their colonies. 

derivatives

intendancy noun 

origin 

mid 17th century: from French, from Latin intendere ‘to direct’ (see intend).

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I think it was Dostoevsky that said, "It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently"

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Tito Merello

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Henri Martin

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Arles hospital courtyard

Vincent

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Word of the Day

décolleté

adjective 

(also décolletée) 

(of a woman's dress or top) having a low neckline. 

noun 

a low neckline on a woman's dress or top. 

origin 

mid 19th century: French, past participle of décolleter ‘expose the neck’.

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Word of the Day

suzerain

noun 

a sovereign or state having some control over another state that is internally autonomous.

 • historical a feudal overlord. 

origin 

early 19th century: from French, apparently from sus ‘above’ (from Latin su(r)sum ‘upward’), suggested by souverain ‘sovereign’.

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Beast.