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The forecasters' promise that there will be no summer recalled the run of rainy years in the fourteenth century that heralded, for the Russian lands, the onset of the Little Ice Age. Which would give way to a brief interglacial in the 1440s. The coldest phase of the Little
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Did the Bishop of Cologne overcome weakness, or is this immortalisation with autofellatio motifs, the revenge of the haters? The author's motivation is a mystery. But it is known that Conrad was indeed disliked for his beer bans
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The Moscow flood brings to mind a 1643 woodcut of an epic witch seen floating on a plank down the River Kennet at Newbury in England. With the weather we are having, an excellent means of getting about
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One cannot, truth be told, say that the couple of Georgian heirs look particularly regal. Photograph from the wedding in 2008 at the Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi
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Today the heir to the crown is said to be the child born of the marriage of David Bagration-Mukhransky and Anna Bagration-Gruzinskaya, whose family was precisely that of the Most Serene Princes and was reckoned to possess royal dignity. It is the second time in two centuries that
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With talk in Georgia of putting the restoration of the monarchy to a referendum, I have decided to continue my account of the Bagration-Mukhransky dynasty. The Georgian noble house of Bagration-Mukhransky is linked with the House of Romanov by several dynastic marriages. The most significant of them, of
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Not all the Bagration-Mukhranskys were overtaken by the avenging hand of the Bolsheviks. Why Maria Georgievna Bagration-Mukhranskaya did not go into emigration after her father and sister one can only guess. Georgy Bagration-Mukhransky, contrary to the logic of the repressive machine, was let out of the country
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The beauty Maria Gunning died at 27 of lead poisoning. Her favourite cosmetic was white lead for the face, which, alas, is no longer manufactured. Incidentally, her husband did not permit her to paint
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