Pictures
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Gates crushed by Russian cannons during the night storming of Peking.
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The eastern wall, captured by Russian troops. A Russian flag can be seen on the tower above the gates.
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Defenders of the French Catholic church Beitang in Peking, August 1900, after a two-month siege.
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Japanese infantry firing at the gates of Peking.
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Famous quotes containing the word pictures:
“I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me, not that they dazzle me. Pictures must not be too picturesque. Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing. All great actions have been simple, and all great pictures are.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Ellie: A soul is a very expensive thing to keep: much more so than a motor car. Shotover: Is it? How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and lakes and beautiful things to wear and nice people to be with.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“In some pictures of Provincetown the persons of the inhabitants are not drawn below the ankles, so much being supposed to be buried in the sand.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)