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This is the Mona Lisa. Well known to be painted by Leonardo DaVinci during the Italian Renaissance, where artists learned a great deal on how to make more realistic paintings.

Though the painting itself is important in art history, people…

The cover of this copy of The Minstrel Boy: A Portrait of Tom Moore by L.A.G. Strong contains the words "T. Moore" written in cursive and embossed in gold. Tom Moore, the subject of this text, was an Irish poet and songwriter, most known for his…

The chapter called "The Final Problem" is the case that features James Moriarty, also known as the 'Napoleon Of Crime'. Considering the Sherlock piece that we read in class I intended read this story as a means of analyzing Sherlock's great rival…

This article provides a scathing view of the diagnosis of hysteria, which prominently "affected" women in the Victorian era. As this article is from a satire publication, the object here is to ridicule the diagnosis of hysteria, as it was…

St. Gerome was a European artist, who designed the beautifully detailed illustrations for Olive Schreiner's "Dreams". The book itself was printed on hand-made Roycroft watermarked paper, while the illustrations were inked with brown ink. The elegant…

A book by 'demonologist' Francis Barrett. It details various occult practices, beliefs, and rituals related to demons, including different runes for summoning specific demons, artistic renderings of said demons, and what purpose they can serve. This…

This article explains to us how Monument Park was originally built and what the purpose of it was. Oddly, it wasn't supposed to be the start of anything big--just a tribute to a singular figure in franchise history: manager Miller Huggins in 1932.…

This is an image of a tattoo. Many literary adept people will see this image and instantly recognize the famous boa constrictor illustration from The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The purpose of this image has been debated ever since…

The passage itself seeks to interrogate the role of fiction in relation to the people of the time period. It describes in a sense how people tend to be attracted to fiction due to our imagination. In earlier times the popular tales would be stories…