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Alexandr Radayev
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Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has left the Vatican with a small retinue, his secretary and several medical staff to visit his elder brother Georg, aged 96, in Germany, where the latter's health has begun to decline
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has left the Vatican with a small retinue, his secretary and several medical staff to visit his elder brother Georg, aged 96, in Germany, where the latter's health has begun to decline. Benedict commented briefly on this rare absence from his permanent Vatican residence,
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What Are You Like Today?
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Dolls, English Style: Notable Tories in the Guise of Gentlemen of Yesterday, 1970
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Irish peasant woman Johanna O'Connor speaks of her longevity at 110
Mrs Johanna O'Connor, a peasant woman from a mountain hamlet in Ireland, at the age of 110: "I still smoke my pipe and do not think a person ought to be without a drop of punch, wine or stout... My secret of longevity? There is no secret,
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🇩🇰 Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary at the presentation of the Queen's portrait, marking her 80th birthday, at Frederiksborg Castle
🇩🇰 Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary at the presentation of the Queen's portrait, marking her 80th birthday, at Frederiksborg Castle. All in all, I still have but one question for this charming and modest queen, in every respect: who styles you, my
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Calls to wash hands during the epidemic and a 17th-century lady removing her gloves
When the epidemic began, I was greatly puzzled by the vast stream of information about the need to wash one's hands, until I began to look closely at photographs on social media in which my acquaintances in Europe and the United States pad about their homes in outdoor
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The picture is, of course, about fashionable parasols in London in the 1790s, but the hats here are no less remarkable
The picture is, of course, about fashionable parasols in London in the 1790s, but the hats here are no less remarkable. I should like to self-isolate beneath an exceedingly wide-brimmed hat in the style of a galero
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Tomb of Henry VIII, Charles I and Jane Seymour beneath St George's Chapel at Windsor
In this vault rest the remains of Queen Jane Seymour, King Henry VIII, King Charles I and an infant of Queen Anne. A little crowded for a single burial. The tomb beneath St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle was discovered by chance, during excavations for a secret underground
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History of the Stalin Monument in Prague from the 1950s Competition to Demolition
In the 1950s it was decided to erect a monument to Stalin in Letná Park, on a viewing platform overlooking Prague, timed to mark the tenth anniversary of the city's liberation from the fascists by Soviet troops. But the sculptors were in no hurry to take part in
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Speaking of the history of destroyed monuments, one cannot fail to recall the colossal multi-figure composition in Prague, in which Stalin leads Czechoslovak and Soviet builders of a bright future, and which survived for only 7 years
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“The Beatles and the Rolling Stones and many others who took up the baton of madness from Presley were very popular, hundreds of thousands were invested to keep their reputation from fading”
“The Beatles and the Rolling Stones and many others who took up the baton of madness from Presley were very popular, hundreds of thousands were invested to keep their reputation from fading. And yet none of them lasted long.” An amusing note in Sovetskaya kultura by Tatyana Kvardakova. Tatyana Vladimirovna