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Victor Emmanuel of Savoy, only son of Italy's last monarch, has died

Italy is bidding farewell to the only son of Umberto II, the last Italian monarch. Victor Emmanuel, Prince of Naples, of the House of Savoy, was born in 1937, still in the reign of his grandfather Victor Emmanuel III. He died on 3 February 2024. After the abolition of the

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Nobles Ought Not to Engage in Commerce, Lest They Grow Idle, Refuse to go to War, and Cease to be the Hand and Shield of Sovereign and Fatherland

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Shops and Shopkeepers in the Arcade of the Theatre of Marcellus in Rome, 1914

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The Archangel Michael Defeating the Dragon, 1405

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The World Will Change

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Tucker Carlson in the Heraldic Colours of the Russian Empire

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Memento mori figurine of Louis XIV

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The Olympic medals of the 2024 Paris Games will be inlaid with hexagonal plates of iron taken from the Eiffel Tower, a direct nod to the chief symbol of France

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Poem “The Struggle for Existence”, dedicated to Darwin, about a summer on the Istra

I read Yegor Kholmogorov's thorough rebuke of believers in Darwinism, and recalled a poem by the satirist Pyotr Shumakher (1817-1891), dedicated to Darwin himself. The Struggle for Existence (Dedicated to Darwin) I was on the Istra this summer, In a remote, forgotten corner; I lived as a

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Madonna and Child, Filippo Lippi, 1484

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A group of 90 Catholic priests, scholars and writers asks bishops and cardinals to reject the Vatican declaration approving the blessing of same-sex couples and to refuse to implement it in their dioceses

A group of 90 Catholic priests, scholars and writers asks bishops and cardinals to reject the Vatican declaration approving the blessing of same-sex couples and to refuse to implement it in their dioceses. Odd that only 90 of them could be found

A woman in a work apron in a workshop tends the hair on a model of an elephant calf with a raised trunk, standing on a wooden pallet.

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Model of a calf of an extinct pygmy elephant at the American Museum of Natural History

The enchanting model of a dwarf elephant calf at the American Museum of Natural History is one of the sweetest things ever made by the exhibition department of any museum whatsoever. The calf is no larger than a pet dog, while the adult of this extinct species stood a mere

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