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Artem Mikoyan, Soviet aircraft designer

Artem Ivanovich Mikoyan (1905-1970), Soviet aircraft designer. Mikoyan, of Armenian descent, was a member of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He was also Colonel General of the Soviet Engineering and Technical Service. He is most famous for his work on the MiG aircraft designs. This started in 1939 when he co-founded a design bureau with another Soviet aircraft designer, Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich. Mikoyan continued to produce MiG fighter aircraft designs throughout the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. His honours include two awards of Hero of Socialist Labour. Photographed in Russia, in 1965

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Poster for l Electricine, Lucien Lefevre 1850 France, exhibited in the Salon

Poster for l Electricine, Lucien Lefevre 1850 France, exhibited in the Salon des Independents in Paris in 1872 and 1873. A pupil of Jules Cheret. His posters are included in Les Maitres de la€™Affiche, The Masters of the Poster

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Scene From Poes The Purloined Letter

Engraving shows a scene from The Purloined Letter, a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe, late 1800s. The illustration is credited to Wogel. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

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