Today’s catch is five pictures that got there ahead of the sentence: a fresco that is mostly its restorer’s plaster, an author drawing his own dust jackets, a periodic table recoloured until the shortage is impossible to miss, a nun’s 1486 bird-names painted five centuries late, and a dead-end wall argued open into a tunnel.
The most famous Minoan is mostly plaster
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He drew the jackets as well as writing the books
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All 90 natural elements recolored by how soon we might run out
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The medieval nun who named bird flocks, painted five centuries later
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A dead end painted into a tunnel, from one spot on the pavement
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