The Course of Empire' is a cycle of paintings by 19th-century artist Thomas Cole that depict the rise and fall of an ...

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I first encountered these fragments at an exhibition of medieval sculpture at Tate Britain in 2001 ... The base is my favourite; each of its panels contains a crouched Roman soldier slumbering against ...

On August 31, 1886, a huge earthquake delivered the final blow to Middleton Place. This 7.3-magnitude quake, the strongest ...

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