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Four generations of the Swedish royal family: King Gustaf V, his son Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf, his grandson Gustaf Adolf and his great-grandson Carl Gustaf, born in 1946

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Khrushchev's Tu 114 Flight to the USA and His Calls for Peaceful Competition

On 15 September 1959 the first visit by a Soviet leader to the United States began. A Soviet sputnik in Earth orbit, a Soviet rocket on the Moon, and the Soviet leader arriving in the United States aboard a Soviet Tu-114, the largest passenger aircraft in the world. Khrushchev

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Prince Harry turns 39 today, fifth in line to the British throne

Prince Harry turns 39 today, fifth in line to the British throne. One would wish him a little sense, and that the queue never, in fact, reaches him or his descendants

Silhouette of the Peter the Great monument against an orange and blue sunset sky. In the foreground are an arched bridge, barges with workers and a crane boom over the water.

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Peter the Great monument at sunset, with a bridge under construction

Dark silhouette of a sailing-ship monument against an orange and blue sunset sky; in the foreground a steel bridge span on barges and a crane hook.

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Silhouette of the Peter the Great monument at sunset behind a bridge span on barges

Archaeology · Heritage · Science

Like other sensational news, the Mexican apparition of aliens from Peru was fairly quickly exposed by scientists

Like other sensational news, the Mexican apparition of aliens from Peru was fairly quickly exposed by scientists. Even without seeing the remains at close quarters, anthropologists from various countries point to the spurious character of the finds presented. Most probably, the objects billed as alien skeletons and mummies of humanoids

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Map of the World According to Hecataeus of Miletus, the Father of Geography, Who Lived in the 6th Century BC

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Saruman, on hearing that some hobbits intend to destroy the Ring of Power

Broadcast frame: a man in a suit at a microphone, beside a screen with 3D scans of an elongated skull and neck vertebrae. Caption: José de Jesús Zalce Benítez, forensic specialist.

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Mexican Chamber of Deputies hearing: scan of a skull on screen, 12 September 2023

Broadcast frame: a small desiccated figure with an elongated head on pale cloth. Captions read «Audiencia pública México», Cámara de Diputados, 12 September.

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Mexican Congress hearing on unidentified anomalous phenomena, 12 September 2023

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How Napoleon handled papers and dictated to his secretaries, according to Andrew Roberts

Napoleon knew perfectly well how to set his priorities. Urgent tasks he took up at once; papers that were important but not pressing he laid in a pile to be dealt with later; and documents he did not consider important he threw on the floor. Whereas Louis XVIII had a

A grey tugboat and a red barge moored by a canal embankment. Red-brick buildings and a glass-roofed structure line the banks under a blue sky with a single cloud.

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Alexandr Radayev