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In the 1790s, campaigns arise in England against the currents blowing in from France, alarming for their backdrop of bloody reprisals and the overthrow of a monarchy
In the 1790s, campaigns arise in England against the currents blowing in from France, alarming for their backdrop of bloody reprisals and the overthrow of a monarchy. A propaganda broadsheet sets two allegories of Liberty side by side: Britannia, with the scales of justice, Magna Carta under the protection of
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Irish peasant woman Johanna O'Connor speaks of her longevity at 110
Mrs Johanna O'Connor, a peasant woman from a mountain hamlet in Ireland, at the age of 110: "I still smoke my pipe and do not think a person ought to be without a drop of punch, wine or stout... My secret of longevity? There is no secret,
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“The Beatles and the Rolling Stones and many others who took up the baton of madness from Presley were very popular, hundreds of thousands were invested to keep their reputation from fading”
“The Beatles and the Rolling Stones and many others who took up the baton of madness from Presley were very popular, hundreds of thousands were invested to keep their reputation from fading. And yet none of them lasted long.” An amusing note in Sovetskaya kultura by Tatyana Kvardakova. Tatyana Vladimirovna
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Asparagus in Moscow gardens since the 17th century and Russian distrust of lettuce
Asparagus was loved and cultivated in Russia, even in Moscow, from the seventeenth century at the latest. The German Olearius recalls: “There are also kitchen vegetables of every kind, especially asparagus as thick as a finger, such as I myself ate at the house of a certain Dutch merchant, a
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Lewis Sayre's 1882 apparatus for treating tuberculous spondylitis
No, this is not a device for readjusting to normal locomotion after emerging from a three-month sofa quarantine. All the more so as we have no such emergence to look forward to just yet. This is an advertisement for an apparatus of 1882 devised by Lewis Sayre. The American
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Byron's memoirs burned in London in 1824 by his publisher Murray and executor Hobhouse
In May 1824 one of the greatest crimes in the history of English literature was committed in London. Barely a month after Byron's death, his memoirs were destroyed. And this was done in the presence of the poet's close friends and his executor. Memoirs are usually
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The handsome Ivan Yankovsky backs the "I Want RGADA Remotely" campaign
The handsome Ivan Yankovsky backs the "I Want RGADA Remotely" campaign. Ah, Vanya, we all want things remotely just now, and not merely the State Archive of Early Acts. But it is a good and noble cause, and I support it wholeheartedly.
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What a dreadful woman she is, that Portsmouth Kate: back in the Welsh news again, this time for causing a disturbance and using foul language in the street!
What a dreadful woman she is, that Portsmouth Kate: back in the Welsh news again, this time for causing a disturbance and using foul language in the street! But to my mind, the countless arrests merely show the unbending character of this 34-year-old madam
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Mozart's wife Constanze Weber at 78 in a group photograph
- Your grandmother? - Not quite. This is Mozart's wife, the 78-year-old Constanze Weber.
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An Eighteenth-Century Drawing of a Fresco at Pompeii
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The Christening of Prince Pavlos of Greece, 1967
The christening of Prince Pavlos of Greece, 1967. How beautiful the Queen Dowager Frederica is; one sees at once whom her daughters take after! Queen Anne-Marie of the Hellenes holds her month-old son Pavlos in her arms. Princess Sophia, who left Athens after her wedding to the Spanish