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Little Red Riding Hood
Little Red Riding Hood. The Swedish artist Carl Olof Larsson, 1881
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Princess Diana and Dodi Al-Fayed in the lift of the Paris Ritz on 30 August 1997, the last day before their deaths
Princess Diana and Dodi Al-Fayed in the lift of the Paris Ritz on 30 August 1997, the last day before their deaths. The third person in the lens of the surveillance camera is Claude Roulet, assistant to the president of the Ritz hotel
Geography
The ten largest countries in the world by land area in square kilometres
The 10 Largest Countries by Area: Knowledge You Cannot Do Without. Russia 🇷🇺 17,098,242 Canada 🇨🇦 9,984,670 USA 🇺🇸 9,826,675 China 🇨🇳 9,596,960 Brazil 🇧🇷 8,514,877 Australia 🇦🇺 7,741,220 India 🇮🇳 3,287,263 Argentina 🇦🇷 2,780,400 Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 2,724,900 Algeria 🇩🇿 2,381,
Geography · Society
Ten countries led by China, the United States and India, with their figures
Just in Case: The 10 Largest Countries by GDP. China 🇨🇳 27,312,548,291,586 United States 🇺🇸 22,996,100,000,000 India 🇮🇳 10,218,572,963,097 Japan 🇯🇵 5,396,818,536,178 Germany 🇩🇪 4,815,479,144,639 Russia 🇷🇺 4,785,445,021,584 Indonesia 🇮🇩 3,566,265,
Geography · Society
The ten most populous countries in the world and their population figures
In Case You Have Forgotten: The 10 Most Populous Countries. China 🇨🇳 1,451,420,250 India 🇮🇳 1,409,911,226 USA 🇺🇸 335,240,012 Indonesia 🇮🇩 279,910,730 Pakistan 🇵🇰 230,567,560 Nigeria 🇳🇬 217,817,375 Brazil 🇧🇷 215,868,823 Bangladesh 🇧🇩 168,307,149 Russia 🇷🇺 146,069,197 Mexico 🇲🇽 131,
Art · Humour
What an enormous fly!
Still life with a carafe of wine, a loaf of bread and small fish. Oil on panel. Georg Flegel, 1637.
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Gorbachev Was the Last of the Trio Who Brought the Cold War to an End
Gorbachev was the last of the trio who brought the Cold War to an end. Mikhail Gorbachev (1931-2022), Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)
Faith · Monarchies · People
Bernard of Clairvaux as the Ideologist of the 1147 Wendish Crusade Against the Slavs
Bernard of Clairvaux, who is shown on icons receiving milk from the breast of the Virgin Mary, is regarded as the man behind Pope Eugene III, who had been his pupil and heeded his opinion. It was Bernard of Clairvaux who was the ideologue of the Crusade against the Slavs
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The apocryphal vision of Bernard of Clairvaux and the Virgin's milk, spread from Spain
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux Drinks the Breast Milk of the Virgin Mary, Who Is Nursing the Infant Jesus. This curious subject spread from Spain and is connected with an apocryphal tale of a vision of the Abbot of Clairvaux, in which the Mother of God directed a jet of her
NB! · Humour
"You look wonderful, darling!" "Thank you, and you're a perfect picture yourself!"
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Versailles closed to visitors and its masterpieces were moved to Chambord in August 1939
On 25 August 1939 a notice reading "Museum Closed" appeared on the gates of Versailles. On 29 August the removal of masterpieces from the palace to the Château de Chambord began. On 3 September France declared war on Germany
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