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Alexandr Radayev
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Princess Anne, King Charles and Queen Camilla at the annual Highland gathering at Balmoral, the Braemar Gathering
Princess Anne is the only member of the royal family to have taken care to cover her knees. Though, the rules of etiquette for men wearing the kilt call for bare knees, since the length of a kilt, when the wearer stands, should reach the middle of the knee; when
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Krestoslovitsa No. 78 in a 1943 émigré newspaper, the forgotten Russian name for a crossword
Krestoslovitsa ("cross-wordery") is the forgotten Russian name for the crossword. If you are sure of your breadth of knowledge and pride yourself on your erudition, do try your hand at this puzzle from an émigré newspaper of 1943.
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View behind the houses on Harley Street in London, a 1925 painting by Algernon Cecil Newton
Behind the houses on Harley Street, London. 1925. Algernon Cecil Newton
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Pascal Monda's Naples ❤️
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Umbrellas and hats with lightning rods in Europe after Franklin's 1752 invention
In the 1770s, Umbrellas and Hats with Lightning Conductors Came into Fashion in Europe. The device invented in America for diverting lightning strikes from houses made a strong impression on the fashionable European public, which promptly wished to secure against atmospheric electricity its own persons as well. Umbrellas with lightning
Faith · Art · People
Leonardo da Vinci, Adoration of the Magi, 1481-82
The work was never completed, and the monastery of San Donato a Scopeto commissioned the Adoration from Filippino Lippi instead. Leonardo depicted the Magi differently from the accepted manner: they do not walk one after another bearing their gifts, but worship the infant Christ simultaneously, as he sits in the
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Every fool will find a greater fool to admire him
The French poet Nicolas Boileau (1636-1711)
The East · Art · Books
"The Merchant of Venice" first appeared in Japanese in 1883
The translator, Inoue Tsutomu, gave the book the title "The Trial of the Pledged Flesh". The action was transposed into contemporary settings, and in Utagawa Yoshimune's illustrations the characters appear in the dress and surroundings of the nineteenth century
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Map of Italy during the Renaissance
Aristocracy · Monarchies
Princes William and Richard of Gloucester, cousins of Elizabeth II
The elder of the princes, William, was killed in a flying accident in 1972 at the age of 31: he was piloting an aeroplane in a race in Staffordshire when his wing clipped a tree. The title of Duke of Gloucester was inherited by his younger brother, Richard