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A 1.8-Million-Year-Old Tooth Found in Excavations at Dmanisi in Georgia
Research team leader Georgy Bidzinashvili displays a human tooth 1.8 million years old, found during excavations at Dmanisi in Georgia. This and a number of other finds make the localities of Orozmani and Dmanisi the oldest sites of human settlement in the world outside Africa. But I think we
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Viktor Vasnetsov, After Igor Svyatoslavich's Battle with the Polovtsians
Vasnetsov knew "The Tale of Igor's Campaign" by heart and often recited it. The first version of Vasnetsov's famous "Battle" is in the collection of the Vladimir-Suzdal Museum-Reserve.
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Prince Charles as Robin Hood
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If Anyone Was Waiting for a Sign from Above, This Would Seem to Be It
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The other day I wrote about the Elle piece on Elizabeth's childhood
The other day I wrote about the piece in Elle on Elizabeth's childhood. The articles by the royal family's former governess appeared in various publications in Europe and the United States and astonished the public. The Windsors were astonished too, having given no permission for the
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This Seems to Be Rather Too Much
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Camilla Parker Bowles's book blog is renamed The Royal Reading Room
Camilla's book blog, formerly the Duchess of Cornwall Reading Room, now goes by a far shorter name: The Royal Reading Room. The name of the website has also been promptly changed
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The Royal Bees at Clarence House and Buckingham Palace Were Informed of the Death of Queen Elizabeth II, Their Former Mistress, and That Their New Master Is King Charles III
I wrote in my book about the tradition of telling the bees important family news and notifying them of deaths. The English have long shared their joys and sorrows with their bees, and at moments of family bereavement the hives, too, are dressed in mourning. If the little bee houses
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The mechanical horses of Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret and their nursery stable
The favourite amusement of Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret was mechanical horses. Not, of course, that the girls had not been riding since earliest childhood, and Elizabeth simply adored all horses, both her own and those passing by their house, and the Guards' chargers too. She even said that, were
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Governess Marion Crawford on the childhood of Lilibet and Margaret in the Duke of York's family
In 1950 the French weekly Elle ran a long feature on the childhood of Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, signed with the name of their governess, Marion Crawford. Marion relates how she came to meet the Duke and Duchess of York, son and daughter-in-law of King George VI, quite
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Elizabeth II declared at her Platinum Jubilee that Camilla will be Queen
I should like to clarify that Camilla, who became Queen Consort, will after the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II be styled Her Majesty The Queen. Evidently, the word "consort" is not to be pronounced; the status will be merely understood. Camilla's rank will be precisely that