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Mona Lisa, oil painting on a poplar wood panel by Leonardo da Vinci, probably the world’s most famous painting. The sitter’s mysterious smile and her unproven identity have made the work a source of ongoing investigation and fascination. Read more about the painting’s subject and history.| Encyclopedia Britannica
offering or expressing a choice; different from the usual or conventional: such as; existing or functioning outside the established cultural, social, or economic system… See the full definition| www.merriam-webster.com
the act or process of composing; specifically : arrangement into specific proportion or relation and especially into artistic form; the arrangement of type for printing; the production of type or typographic characters (as in photocomposition) arranged for printing… See the full definition| www.merriam-webster.com
World War II was a conflict that involved virtually every part of the world during 1939–45. The main combatants were the Axis powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) and the Allies (France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and China). It was the bloodiest conflict, as well as the largest war, in human history.| Encyclopedia Britannica