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All Happy Families Are Alike; Every Unhappy Family Is Unhappy in Its Own Way. The children of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have officially received the titles of Prince and Princess. At the same time, the children of Prince Joachim of Denmark, likewise the younger child of a reigning monarch,
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Poster for a lecture by the Austrian professor of philosophy, specialist in Russian philosophy and scientific materialism Andrey Gustav Wetter at a cinema in Italy. The subject, naturally, is Italian Marxism. I would have gone to listen
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The word "hygiene" derives from the name of the goddess Hygieia, goddess of health, healing and cleanliness. After all, places of healing must, above all, be clean. Apollo is the patron of medicine, but it is Hygieia who is nonetheless answerable for health.
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In my view, this 1967 ensemble of dress and coat by Tamara Feidel and Sulamif Zaslavskaya could well have been an exhibit at the Musée des arts décoratifs de Paris, but it is on show at the Museum of Moscow, at the exhibition «Dom modelei. Industriya obrazov» [House of Fashion.
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Prince Philip's aunt and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna's niece, Queen Louise of Sweden (1889-1965), née Battenberg, often visited London, and once a bus nearly ran her down there. After this unpleasantness Queen Louise, when walking the streets of London, always carried a small card printed with
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Work on the reconstruction of Notre-Dame de Paris is in full swing. But, frankly, one dreads to imagine what it will look like inside