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Theory linking Kate Middleton to the Rothschilds through her mother

There is a very amusing theory that Kate Middleton, Princess of Wales, is a Rothschild on her mother's side. Her mother, née Goldsmith, is supposed to have come from the Goldsmith-Rothschild family. The theory is often refuted, but then such a fact would hardly be something to

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Poor Capybara

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The pink dress in Marina Tsvetaeva's 1919 poem and her wish to be loved

In 1919 Marina Tsvetaeva wrote the poem "To You, in a Hundred Years", addressed to an admirer from the distant future. Piercing yet lyrical, sad yet spirited. "Friend! Do not seek me! Fashions are other now. Not even the old folk remember me." In this unusual

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Marina Tsvetaeva’s poem of August 1919 addresses a reader born a hundred years later

To You, in a Hundred Years. To you, who are to be born A century hence, once I have breathed my last, From the very depths, like one condemned to death, I write with my own hand: "Friend! Do not look for me! The fashion is different! Even the

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Reeves to make his Broadway debut in “Waiting for Godot” on 28 September

Keanu Reeves makes his Broadway debut in Waiting for Godot. On 28 September, Jamie Lloyd's production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot will open at the Hudson Theatre on Broadway. Although Reeves first appeared on the stage as long ago as 1985, playing Mercutio in Romeo

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Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson, 1916

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I do not know why the film about Queen Victoria reports patently false information, but

in 1847 Queen Victoria conferred the hereditary title of baronet on a representative of the British branch of the Rothschild family, Anthony Nathan de Rothschild. After the death of the childless Sir Anthony the title passed to his nephew, Nathaniel Mayer Rothschild, on whom in 1885 Queen Victoria bestowed the

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In this photograph with Sartre, de Beauvoir does not look like herself

A man in a navy suit walks across a lawn along a line of guardsmen in red tunics and tall bearskin caps. Another man is visible behind him.

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Man in a dark suit walks past a guard of honour in bearskin caps

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King Charles III Receives Trump at Windsor Castle During His State Visit to Britain

King Charles III received Trump at Windsor Castle during his state visit to Britain. The presidential aircraft, moreover, landed literally in the garden of Windsor Castle, the oldest and largest continuously inhabited castle in the world. The presidential couple were welcomed by the Prince and Princess of Wales; Trump then

Black and white photo of a goalkeeper in dark kit diving to reach the ball beside the goalpost, with spectators in the stands behind.

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In Britain, it was proposed to remove Lev Yashin's name from the season's best goalkeeper award

What madness! British zealots have proposed removing the name of the greatest goalkeeper, Lev Yashin, from the award named after him and given to the season's best goalkeeper

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In Paris in the Days before Easter

Issue of Illustrated Russia (Illyustrirovannaya Rossiya) for 1 May 1926

Alexandr Radayev