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The Swedish royal family has published a new official photograph of the heir to the Swedish throne, Crown Princess Victoria, Duchess of Västergötland, with her husband, Prince Daniel, and their children, Princess Estelle and Prince Oscar
The Swedish royal family has published a new official photograph of the heir to the Swedish throne, Crown Princess Victoria, Duchess of Västergötland, with her husband, Prince Daniel, and their children, Princess Estelle and Prince Oscar. The distaff side of the family is dressed in folk costume in the colours
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All Day Every Day
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I don't know whether such records are kept, but I may well have the longest sofa in the world here: just in case one fancies stretching out one's ooooverlong legs of an evening
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Seven years since the death of Christopher Lee, who played Dracula and Saruman
If villainous charisma exists, its embodiment is Christopher Lee. Dracula and Saruman in one person. The actor who played the great antagonists of world cinema would have celebrated his centenary this year, but alas, today marks seven years since his death
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Jean Piaget's ideas of order in the workplace and intellectual labour
Jean Piaget and I have the same ideas about order in the workplace. At any rate, I would rather not hear remarks from people who understand nothing about intellectual labour
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The Pushkin Monument opposite the Strastnoy Monastery, 1936
The Pushkin Monument opposite the Strastnoy Monastery, 1936. Alexander Sergeyevich gazes at the spot where he stands today. One of the most beautiful monasteries in Moscow is occupied by the Central Anti-Religious Museum of the Union of Militant Godless of the USSR, the Central Archive, the Communist University of
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At Pushkinskaya Metro Station, a Pixelated Pushkin Invites Passengers to Read His Books in the Metro's Electronic Library
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What Did Our Ancestors Think of Those Who Drink Their Own Urine and Eat Beavers?
One of the oldest monuments of Russian polemical writing, the eleventh-century Epistle of Theodosius of the Caves to Prince Izyaslav Yaroslavich on the Latins, counsels not merely abstaining from intercourse with the Latins and not giving them one's daughters in marriage, but also, mark this, neither drinking
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Isaac Newton Breaks Russian Law by Investigating the Dispersion of Light
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Henri Matisse, paralysed in 1950, kept working from his bed until his death
Henri Matisse at work in bed. In 1950 the artist was paralysed and could no longer walk, but he did not cease to create until his death
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Elizabeth II and Anna Wintour meet at London Fashion Week in 2018
Elizabeth II and Anna Wintour at London Fashion Week, 2018. Two queens, simply meeting