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It takes two…

To mark your correspondent’s return from Repúbluca Federativa do Brasil:

Via reader HS and (the NSFW) Wilful Damage.

As we limber our fingers, we might recall that it was on this date in 1512 that the Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, at the commission of Pope Julius II, was first unveiled to the public.

The Creation of Adam