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Painted portrait of English physician and author Thomas Browne.

Color photograph of American poet and critic Paul Zweig.

Death

Thomas Browne & Paul Zweig

Engraving of Roman author and administrator Pliny the Younger.

German sociologist and philosopher Georg Simmel.

The City

Pliny the Younger & Georg Simmel

Portrait bust of presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey Homer.

Painted portrait of English poet John Milton.

Politics

Homer & John Milton

Flesh

Blaise Pascal & David Cronenberg

English dramatist, writer, and poet Aphra Behn.

American songwriters Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller.

Magic Shows

Aphra Behn & Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller

Memory

Louis-François Ramond & Homesick Candles

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Fear

Margery Kempe & Central Intelligence Agency

Black and white photograph of Friedrich Nietzsche with a huge mustache.

American lawyer Clarence Darrow.

Crimes & Punishments

Friedrich Nietzsche & Clarence Darrow

American baseball player Yogi Berra.

American basketball player Charles Barkley.

Sports & Games

Yogi Berra & Charles Barkley

Black and white photograph of Mencken looking over his shoulder at the camera

r/Ask Reddit

Friendship

H.L. Mencken & r/Ask Reddit

Philanthropy

Edward III & Carol Liu

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Dutch historian Johan Huizinga.

Sports & Games

Bacchylides & Johan Huizinga

Photograph of German literary critic Walter Benjamin.

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Arts & Letters

Walter Benjamin & Andy Warhol

Sculpture bust of Roman teacher and writer Quintilian.

Black and white photograph of American entertainer Joan Rivers.

Comedy

Quintilian & Joan Rivers

Title page of A Dissertation on Locks and Lockpicking, 1856

Technology

Linus Yale Jr. & Co. & Google Security Blog