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Charlotte Brontë's wedding bonnet 170 years after her wedding
Charlotte Brontë's wedding bonnet. 170 years on, still at the height of fashion
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A Balloon over the Tuileries and the Louvre in 1878
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😍😍😍😍 Italian princesses of the House of Savoy and the House of the Two Sicilies at the name-day celebration of the great-grandchildren of Princess Maria Gabriella of Savoy in Turin
😍😍😍😍 Italian princesses of the House of Savoy and the House of the Two Sicilies at the name-day celebration of the great-grandchildren of Princess Maria Gabriella of Savoy in Turin. From left to right: Vittoria of Savoy, Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Luisa of Savoy and Chiara of Bourbon-
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Translator Mikhail Rudicky on Kafka's prose and its likeness to Pushkin's
Kafka is a prose writer of genius. His narrative voice is clear and pure, full-toned, and, strange as it may seem, reminiscent of Pushkin's prose! Only Pushkin was drawn towards harmony, whereas Kafka was drawn away from it. "The Castle", for instance, reminds me of
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Eduard Asadov’s poem “Dream of the Ages” on the struggle of freedom against violence
Ever since man first rose upright above the earth, And lived, and loved, as nature bids, According to science, among mountains and rivers, In that distant, almost primeval age,— There lived and flourished freedom in the world. But the forefather who took the hide and the meat, Leaving his comrade
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Study of the Wadlow family portrait, a possible lifetime image of Shakespeare
Stephen Wadlow, a 58-year-old window cleaner from Aylesbury (Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom), has spent more than ten years trying to prove that he owns the only portrait of Shakespeare painted in his lifetime. Stephen's father, Peter Wadlow, an antiques dealer, bought the portrait at the Great Tew
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Halite crystal from Artemovsk in a museum display case
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Fersman Mineralogical Museum in Moscow awaits visitors after ceiling collapse
The museum needs help. One of my favourite museums in Moscow, the Fersman Mineralogical Museum of the Academy of Sciences, has had a hard time of it since part of its ceiling collapsed last year, in a building that is, if you please, a cultural heritage site of federal significance.
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When Peggy Guggenheim was asked how many husbands she had had, she replied: “My own, or other women’s?”
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The First Miss America: the American Model Margaret Gorman
The first Miss America was the American model Margaret Gorman. She was born on 18 August 1905. In 1921 she was crowned "Miss District of Columbia". The pageant, later known as "Miss America", was originally called the "Inter-City Beauty" contest.
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