Additionally, the centuries-old portraits have also watched over some of the most historic events of the 20th Century.

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Of course, like establishments throughout much of the country, there are old portraits of Thailand's king, who has been on the throne since 1946.

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Old Lobo family portraits from when Ramon was a child still hang on the walls.

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Cindy Sherman, a 59-year-old chameleon who spends years planning portraits of herself in various personae, briefly held the title as the auction world's highest-priced photographer, female or male, in 2011.

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Warren's sixteen-year-old daughter, Kate, came in, and I asked her if she wanted to see the studio portraits I had taken of Rose for my Christmas cards.

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They then filled the new building with engravings and portraits of Ottoman sultans, French cavalry officers and Druze tribesmen, as well as faded photos of old Beirut and the villages of Mount Lebanon.

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