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This photo is belived to be the oldest surviving photo of London. It was taken by Frenchman Monsieur de St Croxin, approximately in 1839. It focuses on the equestrian statue of Charles I at Charing Cross, (which coincidentally was cast by another Frenchman, sculptor Hubert Le Sueur, possibly around 1633), which is considered to be situated at the centre of London, from which all distances are measured.
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#Onthisday in history (14th March 1883) #KarlMarx made his most useful contribution to mankind...

He died.
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From this point on are punished the sins committed with malizia, which means with an intention to harm people with violence or deception. The devils in this area are very ferocious and frightening.

Malebolge is the kingdom of darkness, and for Dante it is not easy to enter this circle: the poet is terrified by the legions of demons that appear in front of him and try to block the entrance.

The words of the poet Virgil, his guide, will not be enough: they will need divine intervention to overcome the devils.

As mentioned above, the eighth circle of Hell is divided into ten bolge, each dedicated to a different kind of guilt.

Bolgia means ditch, from the shape of the infernal pit cave that contains the damned.

Here you find the division of the damned in Malebolge and their punishment according to the rule of retaliation:

Ditch 1: Panderers and Seducers: they are whipped by devils.
Ditch 2: Sinners guilty of excessive flattery: they are immersed in the dung.
Ditch 3: Simonists: they are stuck in a hole upside down, with the soles of their feet burning with flames.
Ditch 4: Soothsayers: they walk with their heads turned backward.
Ditch 5: Grafters: they are immersed in boiling pitch.
Ditch 6: Hypocrites: they walk wearing heavy leaden robes, painted with gold
Ditch 7: Thieves: they have their hands tied behind their backs by snakes and suffer horrible metamorphosis.
Ditch 8: Deceivers who gave false or corrupted advice to others for personal benefit: they roam the pit, wrapped in a flame.
Ditch 9: Sinners who in life promoted scandals, schism, and discord: they are mutilated by a devil with a sword.
Ditch 10: Falsifiers: forgers of metals are affected by scabies, those of people snapping together, forgers of coins are tormented by thirst, and those of words are suffering from high fever.


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CANTO XX

AND now the verse proceeds to torments new,
Fit argument of this the twentieth strain
Of the first song, whose awful theme records
The spirits whelm'd in woe. Earnest I look'd
Into the depth, that open'd to my view,
Moisten'd with tears of anguish, and beheld
A tribe, that came along the hollow vale,
In silence weeping: such their step as walk
Quires chanting solemn litanies on earth.

As on them more direct mine eye descends,
Each wondrously seem'd to be revers'd
At the neck-bone, so that the countenance
Was from the reins averted: and because
None might before him look, they were compell'd
To' advance with backward gait. Thus one perhaps
Hath been by force of palsy clean transpos'd,
But I ne'er saw it nor believe it so.

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#Onthisday in history (14th March 1883) #KarlMarx made his most useful contribution to mankind...

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#Onthisday in history (14th March 1883) #KarlMarx made his most useful contribution to mankind...

He died.
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