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Napoleon the Bullrider
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Anorexic horse

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Another charmingly racist and politically incorrect drawing from the 30s:

Try that in today’s rainbow nation! Click pic for bigger. Via Agence Eureka

Rodeo Bonaparte
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UFO sighting
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From the always wonderful BibliOdyssey blog: Satirical Maps of the First World War

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Discover a great collection of Europe maps from 1914 and 1915, drawn as satirical cartoons. The image above is part of a British map, entitled “Hark! hark! The dogs do bark!” and features a French poodle, German dachshund, English bulldog and […]

The invisible emperor
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Some ancient French riddles to keep you busy if you have nothing better to do:

In the picture on the left you have to find a dog (a Great Dane), in the one on the right a hunting guard. Can you find them?
More of the same on Agence Eureka

Napoleon’s Ferrari
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I found this French picture (ca 1937) on VintagePhoto (click for bigger):

Is this a boy dressed as an adult, or a real (but vertically challenged) cameraman?

Dinopoleon Bonaparte
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Man on Wire is a documentary by James Marsh, bringing Philippe Petit’s extraordinary adventure to life through the testimony of the man himself, and some of the co-conspirators who helped him create the unique and magnificent spectacle that became known as “the artistic crime of the century.”

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On August 7th 1974, a […]

Jacques-Henri Lartigue [wiki] is generally hailed as one of the founders of modern photography. For reasons I can’t fathom he liked to take pictures of leaping people:

“All the jumping and flying in Lartigue’s photographs, it looks like the whole world at the turn of the century is on springs or something. There’s a kind of […]

Darth Vader (Star Wars)
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In 1800, Napoleon Bonaparte and his army crossed the Alps, through the Great Saint-Bernard Pass, on their way to fight the Austrians. French artist Jacques-Louis David painted the general no less than five times. But nobody knew that dozens of Photoshoppers were there too. During the month of August you’ll discover their digital masterpieces every […]