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TIL the famous Rokeby Venus painting was attacked by a suffragette with a meat cleaver in 1914. She stated that she wanted to destroy the most beautiful woman in mythological history, in protest against the government for destroying Emmeline Pankhurst, the most beautiful woman in modern history.

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