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Four royal children were born in Britain between February and May 1964
Four heirs to the British crown at their joint 21st birthday party at Windsor Castle in 1985. The year 1964 is remembered by the English for a royal baby boom, when four royal heirs arrived within the space of a few months. That year the Queen herself was delivered of
Aristocracy · Archive · Art · Moscow · Museums · Society
Speaking of aristocrats and art: on the upper floor of MAMM, an archival exhibition by Lauren Greenfield on the life of the Moscow post-Soviet elite, a photographic project of 2012-2014 in which the artist set out to capture the daily life and pretensions
Speaking of aristocrats and art: on the upper floor of MAMM, an archival exhibition by Lauren Greenfield on the life of the Moscow post-Soviet elite, a photographic project of 2012-2014 in which the artist set out to capture the daily life and pretensions of Russia's wealthy.
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German Cavalryman on the Eastern Front, First World War
Archive · Observations · Mores
Kharkiv Calendar of 1885 on a peasant woman who threw her newborn into a pigsty
Russian chthonic horror. If anyone had questions for Nekrasov, reality is always harsher than invention. On the night of the 8th the peasant woman Berestova, aged 19, resident of the village of Lozovaya in the Izyum district, threw her newborn child into a pigsty, where it was eaten by the
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Poppy Delevingne shares photo of her grandmother with Prince Philip in Venice in 1936
British model Poppy Delevingne has shared on Instagram a family story, accompanied by a photograph of her grandmother with the seventeen-year-old Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, on holiday in Venice in 1936. According to the family recollection, her grandmother said she understood at once that this young
Archive · Interviews · Society · People
Marietta Chudakova cites a fragment of a 1953 interview with A. F. Kerensky:
"...When Vladimir Ulyanov wished to enter Kazan University, he turned to my father for help. My father wrote a letter in which he recommended Vladimir Ulyanov as a model pupil. - That was a bold step on the part of your father, an imperial official, to give a letter of
NB! · Archive · Architecture · Cinema
Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt on the Mount Rushmore relief, recreated in a studio set for Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 film "North by Northwest" with Cary Grant
NB! · Archive · Society · Paris
The Burial of the Unknown Soldier beneath the Arc de Triomphe in Paris in 1921
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A very charming piece of double dressing by Elizabeth II and her youngest son Edward, Earl of Wessex, in 2004
A very charming piece of double dressing by Elizabeth II and her youngest son Edward, Earl of Wessex, in 2004. In the arms of Sophie, Countess of Wessex, is their elder daughter, Louise Windsor.
Archive · Observations · Science
Do you think the prediction of the Soviet scientist Vsevolod Zubakov about the emergence of a cybernetic organism, made back in the 1990s, has begun to come true?
Do you think the prediction of the Soviet scientist Vsevolod Zubakov about the emergence of a cybernetic organism, made back in the 1990s, has begun to come true? After all, advanced artificial intelligence is not so very far from the state described. Be that as it may, I love infographics
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When She Put On All Her Best at Once
When she put on all her best at once. Photographs of Elizabeth II from 1986, when she was 60, taken by Curtis Hoopper for work on the Queen's portrait. These pictures were found in the artist's studio after his death.