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“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.” Ralf | Miami

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Lauren Bacall photographed by Louise Dahl-Wolfe, 1943

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Edouard CHIMOT (1880-1959)

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Picture by SheltieBoy

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Pensive. Oil on Canvas. 40-6 x 41.9 cm.

Art by Sir William Russell Flint.(1880-1969).

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Iroquois League: The Ancient and Powerful Union of Six Nations

The Iroquois, known also as the Haudenosaunee (which means People Building a Long House), were a powerful and important Native American confederacy located in the northeastern part of North America. During the colonial period, this confederacy was known to the French as the ‘Iroquois League’, and later as the ‘Iroquois Confederacy’. On the other hand, they were known to the English as the ‘Five Nations’, and, after 1722, as the ‘Six Nations’. The six nations that make up the Iroquois League are the Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, Seneca and Tuscarora (as the sixth nation of this confederacy), which are tribes that are linguistically related.

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“Throughout history many nations have suffered a physical defeat, but that has never marked the end of a nation. But when a nation has become the victim of a psychological defeat, then that marks the end of a nation.” — Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History

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Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1968

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Food is most important

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BOUGUEREAU, William Adolphe (1825-1905)

Song of the Angels, detail 1881 Ed. Orig. Lic. Ed.

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Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844)

The Greek Who Guards the Imprisoned Persian 1831

Marble

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Hunter Portrait #2

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Polish soldier with his horse in the mountains.

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By Stephan Brigidi

Francesca Woodman  Woman with Large Plate, 1978