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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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Statue of David Hume
A statue of the Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776). Located on Edinburgh's Royal Mile.
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Sycamore Gap, Hadrian's Wall
Sycamore Gap on Hadrian's Wall is a section of the wall (Wall Mile 38) between two crests just east of Milecastle 39. It is locally known as the "Robin Hood Tree" for its use in the 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991).
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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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Throne Dais of Shalmaneser III [North Face, East End]
This scene is part of a long tributary one where the king receives tribute from Qalparunda of the Land of Unqi (a Luwian Syri-Hittite state, also known as Pattin). Here, the Assyrian king, Shalmaneser III (r. 858-824 BCE), stands below a...