Museums · Society · Nature
The Khmelita Museum-Reserve is using its Instagram to urge people not to burn dry grass. A grass fire is a terrible wound to nature and a disaster for many living creatures. When grass is set alight by these ill-starred gardeners, leverets, born in April, perish, along with birds&
Moscow · Museums · Observations · Society
The Garage Museum has waived admission fees on Patron's Day, 13 April. The promise is that the initiative will be annual, in honour of Philanthropist's Day. On that day one may enter the museum by making any donation one finds comfortable to the Garage Endowment Fund.
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Aristocracy · London · Monarchies
After the death of Prince Philip, three members of the royal family have received new titles. The Queen is henceforth Dowager Duchess of Edinburgh, Prince Charles has inherited his father's titles and becomes Duke of Edinburgh, and Camilla becomes Duchess of Edinburgh. The Queen, of course, will not
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Maruska. Drawing by Leonid Pasternak, 1936
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The woman who gave birth to ten children. Maria Feodorovna, Russian Tsarina, wife of Emperor Paul I. She outlived her husband by 27 years.
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The Austrian field marshal, diplomat and writer Prince Charles-Joseph de Ligne, returning from a military campaign, asked his wife Françoise whether she had been faithful to him. "Often," replied his wife.
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It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty The Queen has announced the death of her beloved husband, His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. His Royal Highness passed away peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle.
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In April 1895 Oscar Wilde failed to win his case against the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of his close friend and lover Douglas. The Marquess demanded an end to the affair between Oscar Fingal and his son and accused the writer of sodomy, or, to be precise, sent a
London · Monarchies · Mores
Princess Alexandra of Kent was the last member of the British royal family at whose birth a special official of the royal administration was present, to certify the fact of the birth of an infant of royal blood and to confirm the legitimacy of the descent of a person in