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Diamond jewelry in a case marked Boucheron Paris
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Now would be just the moment to flee to Switzerland in a Rolls-Royce, with the boot full of gold bars and two million francs under the leather back seat, even if in old-issue notes, from before the 1960 redenomination, and most certainly with a distinguis
Now would be just the moment to flee to Switzerland in a Rolls-Royce, with the boot full of gold bars and two million francs under the leather back seat, even if in old-issue notes, from before the 1960 redenomination, and most certainly with a distinguished Louis Vuitton travel
Faith · Art · People
Iconography of Gregory the Great, his election in 590 and the name Dvoeslov
Saint Gregory, Gregory the Great or Gregory the Dialogist, is usually depicted with a dove hovering at the level of his ear, symbolising the Holy Spirit. Gregory was elected Pope in 590, at the height of an epidemic of plague, which is believed to have ceased when he entered the
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When it suits the desired conclusion, Russia may be recognised as Europe
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Aldous Huxley adored cats; for many years he kept a Siamese named Limbo, after Huxley's first collection of stories
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Meme diptych Plans and 2020: an officer with a banner and a man in a robe
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Library hall with tiered iron book stacks and spiral staircases, black-and-white photograph
Architecture · Books · Heritage
Cincinnati's Public Library of 1874 was demolished in 1955 and replaced by a parking structure
The Main Public Library of Cincinnati was once considered the most beautiful library in America. Behind an unremarkable façade lay a modest building with an interior of extraordinary workmanship by the architect McLaughlin. The heart of the library was a four-storey atrium with five levels of cast-iron book
Aristocracy · Archive · Monarchies
The Christening of Prince Pavlos of Greece, 1967
The christening of Prince Pavlos of Greece, 1967. How beautiful the Queen Dowager Frederica is; one sees at once whom her daughters take after! Queen Anne-Marie of the Hellenes holds her month-old son Pavlos in her arms. Princess Sophia, who left Athens after her wedding to the Spanish
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Georges Lemaître, Belgian priest, astronomer and author of the expanding universe theory
Father Georges Lemaître explains the Big Bang theory to Pope Pius XII. The Belgian priest Georges Lemaître was an astronomer and mathematician, a doctor of sciences, a professor of astrophysics, who worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, became the author of the theory of the expanding Universe and made
Archaeology · Architecture · Rome
The Ancient History of Cities Lives On in Their Layout
The ancient history of cities lives on in their layout. One of the most beautiful squares in Rome, Piazza Navona, owes its rounded northern end to the fact that in 46 BC Julius Caesar built a stadium here, which the Emperor Domitian later considerably enlarged, giving it the shape of