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I never expected to bump into Nadezhda Babkina on Telegram, having last seen her on a bottle of mango-flavoured Pepsi in the company of Timothée
I never expected to bump into Nadezhda Babkina on Telegram, having last seen her on a bottle of mango-flavoured Pepsi in the company of Timothée. So far Babkina has only given RTVI an interview about some denunciations. I am certain that this time nobody asked her about so little-
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Marchioness Arconati-Visconti refurbished Gaasbeek Castle and gave it to the Netherlands
Nothing special, just the elderly Marchesa Maria Arconati-Visconti playing a bored Renaissance page at home, in the Dutch castle of Gaasbeek. A great eccentric even in her youth, in her declining years the Marchesa Arconati-Visconti devoted herself to decorating and refurbishing a castle in the Southern Netherlands, which
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Perhaps you would be interested to see Khrushchev with hair
Perhaps you would be interested to see Khrushchev with hair. 1936, for example
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The Most Charming Christmas Decoration in the World Has Been Found
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Byron family coffins in the family vault of St Mary Magdalene Church in Hucknall
Photograph from the Byron family vault in the Church of St Mary Magdalene at Hucknall. The poet's remains lie in a coffin bearing a small coronet. Beneath it stands the coffin of the previous lord, the Wicked or Sinful Byron, his great-uncle, which in turn rests on
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Nothing special, just the elderly Henri Matisse painting a picture with a brush on a telescopic handle
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Abraham Lincoln at the beginning of his presidency, in 1861, and at the end, in 1865
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In 2015 the Rijksmuseum first showed Willem II's stuffed horse Veksi, a Waterloo veteran
In 2015 the Rijksmuseum displayed the stuffed horse of Willem II to the public for the first time. The beloved horse of the King of the Netherlands, Wexy, took part in the Battle of Waterloo together with his gallant master, and the two were wounded together. After the favourite'
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Pasted-over pages in books at the Akhmatova Museum and her poems about Stalin
In the Akhmatova Museum at the Fountain House there are poetry collections with pages pasted shut. It is reported that Akhmatova herself pasted these pages shut. What is on them? Akhmatova's poems about Stalin. It is believed that Anna Andreyevna was compelled to write them in order to
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There are quite a few oddities in issue No. 9 of 1830 of Delvig's "Literary Gazette"
There are quite a few oddities in issue No. 9 of 1830 of Delvig's "Literary Gazette". Take, for example, the rhyme in Pushkin's epistle to Yazykov of 1824: "Since time immemorial a sweet bond Unites poets with one another: They are priests of
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Men's fashion of autumn 1828 and wide trousers adopted from sailors' dress
Men's styles for autumn 1828 are rather varied, and the solicitous editor of the fashion journal explains that before us are sporting dress, a water costume and a festive suit. The sporting one is for riding, the festive one for an evening outing. And the "water"