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The bottom of the allegory of Abundance from the sculptural group Triumph of the Republic (1879–99) by the Louvre curator Jules Dalou is plastered with leaflets of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the alliance of France's left-wing forces, who has thus expre
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Agatha Christie's Parrot Discovered
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The Wallpaper in Dzerzhinsky's Memorial Study, as if Streaked with Blood
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On discovering that a sandwich at the theatre buffet costs 8,000
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The Queen's appearance on screen alongside Paddington Bear is as unexpected as her turn with James Bond in 2012
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Three hundred crocodile mummies found near the Kom Ombo temple in Aswan province
Beauty and spa treatments may turn you into a goddess, but there is no guarantee that it will not be the deity Sobek, who appears in the guise of a crocodile. The proof: specimens from among the three hundred crocodile mummies discovered in the vicinity of the temple of Kom
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Packed Off to Kamchatka for Bad Behaviour
At the service in St Paul's Cathedral marking Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee, Prince Harry and his wife were seated far from their closest relatives, Prince Charles and Prince William. After Harry's hostile sallies against the family, his father personally, and life at Buckingham Palace,
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Boundary post from Shaydorovo in Kolomenskoye and the all-seeing eye symbol
In Kolomenskoye there is a boundary post brought from the village of Shaidorovo in 1980, and for some reason it is called a monument to Alexander II or a memorial post of the abolition of serfdom. The carving itself bears no indication of any such meanings; what is more, its
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Chimpanzee brutally beaten to death with stones and sticks, then partly eaten and left to the beasts of his former tyrant
Chimpanzee brutally beaten to death with stones and sticks, then partly eaten and left to the beasts of his former tyrant. The wounds on the body showed that, before his death, the cruel alpha male had been held down by the arms while other primates rained blows upon him. The
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Prince Charles and Camilla beside a memorial plaque to all the men and women who saved St Paul's Cathedral from destruction during the war
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