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British aristocrat and former lady-in-waiting to the Queen, Lady Pamela Hicks, née Mountbatten, at 93 has become, following the death of Elizabeth II, the oldest living descendant of Queen Victoria in Great Britain
Lady Pam, as she is usually called in society, is a great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, descending from her second daughter, Princess Alice of the United Kingdom. Lady Pamela Hicks is a first cousin of the late Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and was a bridesmaid at his wedding
NB! · Books · London · Monarchies
A Very Touching Recollection of a Meeting with the Queen, from the Book by the Surgeon David Nott
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Three Queens of England: the not yet crowned Elizabeth II, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon) and the Dowager Queen Mary of Teck at the funeral of George VI
Monarchies · Society
Doctors concerned for Elizabeth II's health as her family travel to Balmoral
Doctors are concerned about the condition of Queen Elizabeth II, 96, who is now at Balmoral Castle under medical supervision. Prince Charles, Prince William and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, have set off for Her Majesty's estate. The royal family's website appears to have crashed following the
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Stalin holding his daughter Svetlana
Faith · Art · Observations
Giotto's Fresco Christ among the Doctors, 1304-1306
The fresco's original title is Cristo tra i Dottori, which often misleads viewers: many, in error, take Dottori literally as physicians. One should not forget that the word doctor derives from the Latin docere, "to teach", and a doctor is accordingly a teacher. Jesus in this
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Ilya Repin, self-portrait with palette and brush, 1915
Art · Museums · People
Repin designed a hanging palette because of pain in his right hand
In the 1890s Repin began to suffer pains in his right hand: from constant painting, a gradual atrophy of the muscles between the thumb and forefinger was developing. The artist could no longer paint with his right hand, and the pain would not even let him hold a palette in
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The Statue of Liberty's face be like
NB! · Archaeology · Moscow
White-stone cannonballs found by the Kosmodemyansky Tower of the Kitay-gorod Wall in 1958
White-stone cannonballs found by the Kosmodemyansky Tower of the Kitay-gorod Wall in 1958. Dated to the 16th and 17th centuries. Cannonballs of this kind were fired by the stone-throwing ordnance on the walls of Moscow during its defence.
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Museum collection acquires first authentic item linked to Governor Alexander Pilts
Yesterday in Irkutsk a press conference was held on the occasion of my donating to the Muravyov-Amursky Irkutsk Regional Museum of Local Lore a letter from my collection written by the last Governor-General of Irkutsk, Alexander Ivanovich Pilts. As it turned out, the museum's holdings contained