Pope Francis Makes the Grandest of Gifts to the British Crown on the Eve of the Coronation of Charles III

Pope Francis has made the grandest of gifts to the British Crown in honour of the forthcoming coronation of Charles III. Francis I has presented the monarch with two fragments of wood from the True Cross of the Lord. The fragments, or rather tiny splinters, 5 and 10 mm in length, are, the Vatican assures us, taken from the timber of the authentic cross on which Jesus Christ was crucified. The priceless relic will be placed at the head of the coronation procession on 6 May

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

Pope Francis Makes the Grandest of Gifts to the British Crown on the Eve of the Coronation of Charles III

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s