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A colourised 1903 photograph shows a Greek shepherd and his son on Mount Parnassus
A Greek shepherd and his son on Mount Parnassus. Colourised photograph, 1903
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Mary of Teck, widow of King George V, died just 10 weeks before the coronation of her granddaughter Elizabeth
Mary of Teck, widow of King George V, died just 10 weeks before the coronation of her granddaughter Elizabeth. On her deathbed she insisted that the coronation not be postponed on account of mourning for her. But Elizabeth's accession itself had taken place in Queen Mary's
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The manuscript of an article by Yury Valentinovich Knorozov, co-authored by the cat Asya
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Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstam has a recollection of how she and her husband chanced upon namesakes in a watchmaker's workshop in Yalta
Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstam has a recollection of how she and her husband chanced upon namesakes in a watchmaker's workshop in Yalta. While writing out a receipt, the watchmaker was stunned to hear his own surname from his customers. He invited the Mandelstams to his home and told them
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In honour of Mother's Day, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall has published this photograph of 1990 with her mother, the 70-year-old Hon. Rosalind Shand, née Cubitt, of the youthful baronial house of Ashcombe, created in 1892 for…
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Greek priest before the Parthenon in a photograph by Kees Scherer, mid-1960s
A Greek Orthodox priest before the Parthenon in Athens. Photograph by the Dutch photographer Kees Scherer, mid-1960s
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Princess Elizabeth without a special title and the 2010s reform of royal succession
Ten-year-old Elizabeth plays with a dog; at this age she became first in the line of succession to the British throne. Interestingly, at that time, and right up to her accession, the eldest daughter of George VI held no title and was called simply Princess Elizabeth. The only
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"I am inclined to think that Tolstoy must be placed beside Shakespeare: his art is not art in the manner of Turgenev, Shakespeare or Maupassant, it is something new, and it creates deeper qualities of self-awareness and analysis"
The Nobel laureate in literature John Galsworthy, in a letter to the English translator of Russian literature Constance Garnett, who first introduced the English-speaking public to the texts of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Chekhov
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During the wedding of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, the future Edward VII, to Princess Alexandra of Denmark in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in 1863, Queen Victoria, who had by then been in mourning for 25 years, preferred…
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Reason, Rectitude and Justice help Christine de Pizan build the City of Ladies
Illustration from The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan, one of the first female writers of the Middle Ages, early fifteenth century. Reason, Rectitude and Justice help Christine de Pizan to build the City of Ladies
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Michel de Montaigne's journal for February 1581 mentions a Muscovite ambassador in Rome, dressed in a crimson cloak, a cassock of gold brocade, a nightcap-shaped hat of gold brocade trimmed with fur, and a skufia of silvery linen…
Michel de Montaigne's journal for February 1581 mentions a Muscovite ambassador in Rome, dressed in a crimson cloak, a cassock of gold brocade, a nightcap-shaped hat of gold brocade trimmed with fur, and a skufia of silvery linen, who had come to ask Pope Gregory to help