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Art by Karl Friedrich Schinkel.(1781-1841).

Universe, Architecture, and Dessert by Miao Zhao

Contrary to an often used description, the first device was not developed by the Bauhaus teacher Gerhard Marcks, but had been an in-house design by an unknown employee of Jena glassworks. It was first presented at the Leipziger Messe in 1926. The name Sintrax - a word creation from the terms of sintering and extracting - was registered as a trademark the same year.

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Frogs taxidermy found inside French mansion that had been sealed for 100 years

Cover and poem from Mirskontsa (Worldbackwards), 1912, Natalia Goncharova, cover design; Velimir Khlebnikov and Alexei Kruchenykh, poetry; Mikhail Larionov, Nikolai Rogovin, and Vladimir Tatlin, lithography. The Getty Research Institute, 88-B27486. Cover of Pomada (Pomade), 1913, Mikhail Larionov, lithographer. The Getty Research Institute, 88-B26240

Galileo’s Moon Drawings, the First Realistic Depictions of the Moon in History (1610)

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The National Gallery, London 

“Head of Medusa”, c.1617-18, Peter Paul Rubens (detail)

“Feasting Two-Headed Man Representing the Month of January, from a Church Doorway,” 1250–75, France