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One of the most costly and pointless state meetings in history took place in June 1520 between the young King Henry VIII and King Francis I, on the very edge of English territory, between the castles of Guînes and Ardres. The sovereigns arrived with retinues of 12,000 people. The
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But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. The Apostle Paul. Epistle to the Galatians 5:15
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In 1790s France, more than 50 women's clubs were active, in which members could discuss politics and speak on matters of public importance. The revolutionary women's club met twice a week to read out the minutes of the sittings of the national congress and to discuss
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Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own. Dear women! Never give up! Happy holiday!
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In 1934 the French writer André Malraux decided to fly around Arabia and Africa by aeroplane. Malraux is the author of the masterly novel about the eve of the Chinese revolution, "Man's Fate", from which Bertolucci made "The Last Emperor". Malraux did not fly
Art · Observations
My friends at the architecture studio SKNYPL have devised and built a rather splendid modular shelving unit, CABINET+, which assembles like a construction set into a large storage section, yet on its own transforms into a cupboard, a writing desk and two stool-cum-cabinets. This year it is being
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Acquainted myself with Bookmate's statistics for the winter. Curiously, the chief audiobooks of Yandex Plus's book service turned out to be «Inside the Killer» and «The Word of the Boy». Both books have been made into popular television series. And if the novel «Inside the Killer»
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