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Two friendly Telegram channels share insider tips
Two friendly Telegram channels share insider tips. Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1559
Alexandr Radayev
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The world's oldest Underground station, Baker Street, London: 157 years apart
Books · Paris · Humour
Perhaps Teeth Would Be Better After All?
Memories of Auteuil, 1881, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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It turns out that applicants to the Higher School of Economics can get +2 points for a gold Ready for Labour and Defence badge: almost the same as for a gold medal, which takes a decade of slogging to earn
Geography · Maps · Observations · Humour
The Omnes Viae website calculates travel times on Roman roads using an interactive map
If air links with Europe are this difficult, perhaps it is time to turn to the routes of Ancient Rome? A website has appeared with an interactive map on which you can plan a journey along roads laid down 2,000 years ago. Any journey in the days of the
Faith · Art
Hans Memling’s painting “Saint Jerome Penitent”, 1485
Saint Jerome Penitent. 1485. The fifteenth-century Flemish painter Hans Memling
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White umbel flowers of wild carrot beside a road
Monarchies · Science · Nature · Ethnography
Queen Anne’s Lace and Daucus carota, two names for wild carrot
In the West, wild carrot is called Queen Anne's Lace, in memory of the queen's love of needlework. It is held that Anne of Denmark, wife of the English king James I, brought to England a fashion for certain kinds of lace, together with splendour and
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Monument at the Place Where Princess Diana Died
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A map showing the spread of dumplings along the Great Silk Road and other trade routes of antiquity
A map showing the spread of dumplings along the Great Silk Road and other trade routes of antiquity. Today you will see nothing more important
People · Nature · Humour
Aviator Ila Fox Loetscher began rescuing sea turtles in Texas after the age of fifty
The best years behind her, the joys of a beloved occupation in the past, the children grown, and a beloved husband suddenly dead: this is how the depressed heroines of television serials on Channel Two usually look. Such was also the shape of life after fifty for Ila Fox Loetscher
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