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Alexandr Radayev
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Toyota RV-2 camping estate car shown in Tokyo and New York but never put into production
Toyota RV-2 was a camping estate car that never reached series production, developed by Toyota engineers in the 1970s and shown at the Tokyo and New York motor shows. Thanks to a roof that opened at the rear, the concept car's 4.8-metre body could easily
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The History of the French Kings in a Single Picture
Geography · Maps · Monarchies
Why an infographic shows Greece in the Roman Empire longer than Rome itself
A curious map showing how many years each region was part of the Roman Empire, Eastern and Western alike. There are, admittedly, questions to be put to Greece, which, if the infographic is to be believed, was part of the Roman Empire for longer than Rome itself. Here, however, account
Cinema · Monarchies · Observations · Mores
Anyone who dreams of a prince should watch the 1969 film "Anne of the Thousand Days", which won the Oscar for Best Costume Design
Anyone who dreams of a prince should watch the 1969 film "Anne of the Thousand Days", which won the Oscar for Best Costume Design. True, the picture contains a number of dubious historical allusions, such as the presence of Mary Tudor at her mother's deathbed, which
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Russian America on an English-language map of 1860, where Alaska would later be
Not Alaska but Russian America. 1860
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Thank you, but I seem to have gone off the prawn ceviche
Architecture · Cinema · London · Observations · Heritage
London restores the 1929-31 control room of Battersea Power Station, which once supplied Buckingham Palace and Parliament
London has restored the control room of Battersea Power Station (1929-31), which once kept the lights on at Buckingham Palace and Parliament. The power station has been out of operation since 1981, and since then its premises have been partly mothballed and guarded as a piece of England'
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Photographs of Igor Stravinsky as a Model of Men's Style
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Film still: woman with auburn hair and bangs in an interior with red lamps
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