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Roman Baths
Roman baths were designed for bathing and relaxing and were a common feature of cities throughout the Roman empire. Baths included a wide diversity of rooms with different temperatures, as well as swimming pools and places to read, relax...
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The Famous Baths of the Roman Empire
Roman Baths were designed for bathing and relaxing and were a common feature of cities throughout the Roman empire. Baths included a wide diversity of rooms with different temperatures, as well as swimming pools and places to read, relax...
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The Railway Station by Manet
An 1872-3 oil on canvas painting, The Railway Station, by Edouard Manet (1832-83), the French modernist painter. Another of Manet's puzzles. The station itself (Paris' Gare St. Lazare) is not shown here at all, only the steam from the trains...
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Inca Road Rest Station
An Inca rest station on the Inca Trail, Peru. Such stations were built at regular intervals along most major Inca highways.
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Tokyo Station, 1914
The Muronouchi side of Tokyo Station in 1914, the year it was completed.
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Vigilant’s Station, Hadrian's Villa
The vigilant's station is a multi-level structure in Hadrian's Villa in Tivoly (Italy). It is referred to as "service buildings", and it is often associated with the vigilants or guards who protected the villa.
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Tokyo Station at Night in 2020
The Muromachi side of Tokyo Station at night with tall buildings on the Yaesu side in the background.
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Plan of Stonehenge
The site of Stonehenge as of 2004. The plan omits the trilithon lintels for clarity. Holes that no longer, or never, contained stones are shown as open circles and stones visible today are shown coloured, grey for sarsen and blue for the...
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Geoffrey of Monmouth
Geoffrey of Monmouth was the first to create a complete work on the story of King Arthur in his History of the Kings of Britain.
Tintern Station, Gwent, The Cirle of Legends.
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Gare Saint-Lazare by Monet
An 1877 oil on canvas, Gare Saint-Lazare, by Claude Monet (1840-1926), the French impressionist painter. Fascinated by the play of light on steam and industrial architecture, Monet painted a whole series of canvases on trains and stations...