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Britain is named after the Trojan hero Brutus, grandson of Aeneas, who was banished from Italy for the killing of his father. The goddess Diana prophesied to Brutus that he would found a new Troy, and so it came to pass: he laid out a city on the banks of
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President of Iceland Guðni Jóhannesson has been spotted strolling casually at the Nordic Ethnology and Folklore Conference in Reykjavik. Guðni is a historian, a doctor of sciences and the author of 7 books. No throngs of bodyguards or vast retinue were detected in the vicinity.
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The Queen has a new photograph with Prince Charles and Camilla, taken before today's Order of the Garter ceremony at Windsor Castle. The sovereign of Britain's highest order is Elizabeth II, who personally appoints its members, up to 24 in number, whenever one of the previous
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After his victory at the Battle of the River Cherekha in 1436, during the feudal war of the fifteenth century, Vasily Vasilyevich, Grand Duke of Vladimir and Moscow, ordered one eye to be put out of his cousin and rival for the Muscovite throne, Prince Vasily Yuryevich, who thereafter received
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Youth Making a Grimace. Adriaen Brouwer, 1632-35
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Who rules Russia as of 1526? The Grand Prince of Moscow, the Grand Duke of Lithuania and the King of Poland.