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Madame de Dozha refuses to return a painting on Interpol lists unless paid its value

Norfolk resident Barbara de Dozsa refuses to return Antonio Solario's "Madonna and Child", stolen in 1973 from the Civic Museum of Belluno (Italy), reports Artguide. Some time ago Mrs de Dozsa's husband acquired the work without knowing its provenance. The painting, which appeared on

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The Book of Job on the friends' seven days of silence and Job's curse on the day of his birth

And when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came every one from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to

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It is curious that the very first document I opened at random from the newly published Kennedy archive should speak of a Russian ship

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The US National Archives has published documents on the assassination of John F. Kennedy

The US National Archives has published documents on the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Something in the order of eighty thousand files, I reckon a couple of days should be enough to get through them. Who is in? In addition, documents relating to the assassination of the American president'

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Cover Designs for Nabokov's Novel "Lolita", by the Artist Vagrich Bakhchanyan

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Ever wondered where our crime films get all this taste for a grey, oppressive palette?

Ever wondered where our crime films get all this taste for a grey, oppressive palette? No, Dostoevsky, with his gloomily coloured texts, is not the chief culprit here. It is chiefly the influence of the textbook templates of the English detective story, tied precisely to the Victorian era, which has

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Now that is how one should value the printed word

Black-and-white poster for the 1910 film “Frankenstein”: a creature with white face paint and tousled hair reaches forward.

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The first screen adaptation of “Frankenstein”, from 1910, runs for 12 minutes

The Substance of 1910. The poster of the first screen adaptation of "Frankenstein": the film, made in the early twentieth century, runs for 12 minutes and is brimming with metaphors of the meaning of existence and the search for the capacity to feel truly. The monster looks more

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Thank you for your service, sirrrr

Churchill and the cat

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Before the Temple of Nefertari at Abu Simbel in 1968, photograph by Kees Scherer

Today, before the rock-cut temple of Nefertari, the first wife of Ramesses II, there lies not the bank of the Nile but desert. How did this come about? Let us see. The temple was built in the mid-thirteenth century BC, after the victory over the Hittites, and was

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Have you noticed that dreams of a life like the one in the first photo so often lead to the realities of the second?

Sadly

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Flags of Gondor and Rohan Spotted at Student Protests in Belgrade

It is symbolic to see the banners of these realms in Belgrade of all places, given that the fortress of Minas Tirith, standing at the very eastern spur of the White Mountains, is built of white stone and renowned for its White Tower, the Tower of Ecthelion, crowning the uppermost

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