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An Anti-Bolshevik Poster of the 1920s
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Clint Eastwood Skates Around Rome in the Spring of 1964
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In 1577 Sir Humphrey Gilbert presented Elizabeth I with a narwhal tusk adorned with gold, and said it was the horn of a sea unicorn
In 1577 Sir Humphrey Gilbert presented Elizabeth I with a narwhal tusk adorned with gold, and said it was the horn of a sea unicorn. In principle, one can hardly find fault.
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Christian Faith, bearing New Testament symbols (the crucifix, the keys of Heaven, the attributes of the Eucharist, the papal tiara, the four Evangelists and the Fountain of Life), sheds divine light upon Europe
Christian Faith, bearing New Testament symbols (the crucifix, the keys of Heaven, the attributes of the Eucharist, the papal tiara, the four Evangelists and the Fountain of Life), sheds divine light upon Europe. Faith of the Old Testament, in a horned headdress, with the tablets of the commandments and a
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It is curious that the very first document I opened at random from the newly published Kennedy archive should speak of a Russian ship
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The US National Archives has published documents on the assassination of John F. Kennedy
The US National Archives has published documents on the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Something in the order of eighty thousand files, I reckon a couple of days should be enough to get through them. Who is in? In addition, documents relating to the assassination of the American president'
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Thank you for your service, sirrrr
Churchill and the cat
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Before the Temple of Nefertari at Abu Simbel in 1968, photograph by Kees Scherer
Today, before the rock-cut temple of Nefertari, the first wife of Ramesses II, there lies not the bank of the Nile but desert. How did this come about? Let us see. The temple was built in the mid-thirteenth century BC, after the victory over the Hittites, and was
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Charles III at the Coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953
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The Military Governor of Moscow, Yury Vladimirovich Dolgorukov, Was a Great Friend of the Eminent Grandee Stepan Stepanovich Apraksin, Formerly Military Governor of Smolensk and Known Above All for His Lavish Receptions at His House on…
According to the account of Elizaveta Petrovna Yankova, Apraksin and Dolgorukov had a rather peculiar agreement: whichever of them died first was to give a sign to the other, who remained among the living, and to appear to him three times before his death, to announce that the hour had
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