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Alexandr Radayev
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Lady Mendl and the Duchess of Windsor founded a wartime charity to aid the French army
American actress, designer and philanthropist Elsie de Wolfe (1865-1950), by marriage Lady Mendl, in a velvet cape created specially for her in 1938 by Elsa Schiaparelli. The cape is dedicated to the Fountain of Apollo in the park of Versailles and is called, accordingly, Apollo of Versailles. The garment
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Origin of the English phrase skeleton in the cupboard and the ban on doctors working with corpses
A skeleton in the cupboard. The expression came to us from English and is connected with the history of medicine, or, to be more precise, with the ban in England on physicians working with dead bodies, the bodies of executed criminals alone excepted. This "scientific material", being very
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Political map of the Holy Roman Empire in 1359
Has it fallen apart? The Holy Roman Empire in 1359. Mind you don't lose count
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Soyuz-Apollo
Soyuz-Apollo. A work by Lubsan Dorzhiev (1918-2011), People's Artist of the Buryat ASSR, who painted in the folk style and for many years devoted himself to Buryat ornamentation. Soyuz-Apollo was the first international crewed space flight, and is considered to mark the end of the
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Princess Alexandra of Kent, the most Russian member of the British royal family, turns 87
First cousin of Elizabeth II, granddaughter of Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna and great-great-granddaughter of Emperor Alexander II
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In His Christmas Address Pope Francis Unexpectedly Reminded Us That We Are Not a Number but a Face
Yet in reality everything now happening in the world looks rather the other way round. "Amid a world so judgemental and unforgiving", "you are not a number but a face", and the Christ Child "descends into the narrow confines of our lives, not shunning our
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A Man in a Pram: A Request to Return the Child to Its Mother
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Tolkien's words to his son Michael about Holy Communion and talk of canonisation
Pope Francis quoted Tolkien's letter to his son in his Christmas address:. "Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament… There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the
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Blaise Pascal on how the number of lackeys decides who yields the way
How right it is to distinguish men not by their inner qualities but by their outward signs! Which of us two is to go first? Which is to yield the way to the other? The one who is less nimble. But we are equally nimble, so force will have to
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Possibly the Boldest of Winston Churchill's Photographs
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