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Wheel of Fortune from the Carmina Burana.

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Rule of Law

Carmina Burana & Isabella Whitney

black and white pencil drawing of Moliere in an ornate frame

Black and white photograph of French novelist, essayist, and playwright Albert Camus.

Eros

Molière & Albert Camus

Philanthropy

Edward III & Carol Liu

American magician Harry Houdini.

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Night

Harry Houdini & SimpliSafe Message Board

Irish author Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington.

Socialite, actress, model, and Warhol superstar Edie Sedgwick.

Food

Marguerite Gardiner & the Sedgwick Sisters

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American magician Harry Houdini.

Swindle & Fraud

Al-Hamadhānī & Harry Houdini

Drawing of Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard.

British philosopher, logician, and social critic Bertrand Russell.

Religion

Søren Kierkegaard & Bertrand Russell

Jonathan Swift

Discovery

Jonathan Swift & Thomas S. Kuhn

Black and white image of English philosopher and political theorist John Stuart Mill.

Education

John Stuart Mill & Betsy DeVos

American poet Anne Bradstreet.

Black and white photograph of German-language writer Franz Kafka.

Family

Anne Bradstreet & Franz Kafka

German writer Friedrich Schiller.

photograph of David Foster Wallace speaking at a podium

Arts & Letters

Friedrich Schiller & David Foster Wallace

Photograph of American forger George Bidwell.

Photograph of Lithuanian-born French philosopher Emmanuel Lévinas.

Animals

George Bidwell & Emmanuel Levinas

Portrait bust of Greek historian Xenophon.

German poet Heinrich Heine.

Travel

Xenophon & Heinrich Heine

Memory

Louis-François Ramond & Homesick Candles

Portrait bust of Roman poet Virgil.

Photograph of French writer Guy de Maupassant.

The Sea

Virgil & Guy de Maupassant