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Hansken and other known elephants in Europe, and doubts over six elephants in Mantua
A festive float drawn by three pairs of elephants at Mantua, during the celebrations in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1640. Most probably we are looking at a diverting fantasy, for elephants in the Europe of that age could be counted on the fingers of one hand. To
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Tarkovsky to the Rescue, Lads!
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Artist Valery Yurlov recalls the crush at Stalin's funeral in Moscow
And then, when Stalin was being buried, I walked past the coffin. There was a terrible crush, and I reached the coffin only because I walked over people's heads. Quite literally. I was with a friend, a former soldier, who knew the area very well, since he lived
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Mistook a photograph of the 1989 Pink Floyd concert in Venice for the invasion of Earth by the forces of Baron Harkonnen
Mistook a photograph of the 1989 Pink Floyd concert in Venice for the invasion of Earth by the forces of Baron Harkonnen. Thank God, we got off lightly this time
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An archive of photographs of Stalin's Moscow and other Soviet cities, taken by a US embassy employee expelled from the country for espionage, found in the cupboard of an old house
While in Moscow, Major Martin Manhoff of the US Army, attached to the embassy, was restricted in his movements, yet he managed to take unique photographs of a Soviet world of sharp contrasts. Major Manhoff served at the US embassy in Moscow from February 1952 until June 1954, when he
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In the Netherlands, local police, with the help of art detective Arthur Brand, have found Pieter Brueghel the Younger's painting "Woman Carrying Coals", stolen from the National Museum in Gdańsk half a century ago. At present the Polish authorities…
During the theft in 1974 the criminal replaced the original with a reproduction, and also made off with a sketch by Anthony van Dyck. According to Brand, the trail of the painting was first picked up by a reporter for the Dutch magazine Vind, who spotted it at an exhibition
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The decision to dissolve the Russian Oscar Committee must be taken by the cinematic community
The decision to dissolve the Russian Oscar Committee must be taken by the cinematic community. This opinion was expressed to TASS by Mikhail Shvydkoy, the Russian President's Special Representative for International Cultural Cooperation. "This is a question that the filmmakers themselves must decide," he said, stressing
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Brigitte Macron and Anna Wintour before the Stella McCartney show
Brigitte Macron and Anna Wintour before the Stella McCartney show. And the unseen presence of Candace Owens
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Perhaps this is what we seek in life, only this: unbearable pain, so as to become ourselves before we die
"Journey to the End of the Night", Louis-Ferdinand Céline. In the photograph, Céline in front of his house in Meudon in 1955
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Crossword clues for the across entries, numbers 3 to 29
The Brilliant "Void Crossword" by Anton Olshvang, 1999. Across: 3. A gradual advance 8. Work without a contract 11. The part of a pencil that is not the lead 12. A simulation of good health 13. A superfluous plant in the house 14. An intention repeated many times