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1932: Island Palaces
Yoshida Hiroshi: Island Palaces in Udaipur (1932) Udaipur (1931) El Capitan, from the series The United States (1925) Glittering Sea, from the series Inland Sea (1926) Deer in Kasuga (1928)
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1860: Sara Paambu
A dhaman (rat snake) (ptyas mucosus), Tiruchirappalli, ca.1860 (source) In Tamil, the snake’s name is sara paambu.
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Tagged 19th Century, Animals, Art, India, Optical Illusions, Painting, Snakes, Tamil
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2003: Bureaucracies Around the World
From Jan Bannings’ Bureaucratics series. “Sushma Prasad (b. 1962) is an assistant clerk at the Cabinet Secretary of the State of Bihar (population 83 million) in The Old Secretariat in the state capital, Patna. She was hired “on compassionate grounds” … Continue reading
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16th Century: The Throne Verse of the Qur’an as a Horse
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Tagged 16th Century, Animals, Art, Horses, India, Islam, Religion
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