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A Secret History
A Secret History. Margaret Thatcher, aged 57, Prime Minister of Great Britain, pirate, witch and murderess. Guilty! Margaret Thatcher as a pirate in the Argentine press after Britain's invasion of the Malvinas, or Falkland Islands, in 1982. The islands remain a disputed territory: Argentina regards them as occupied
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In a book of 1765 I came across an interesting supposition about the stature of Our Saviour Jesus Christ: three cubits, that is, about 183 cm
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King George V and Queen Mary of Teck watching a football match at the Aldershot military stadium on Easter Monday, 1922
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The 81-year-old Nikola Tesla in 1937
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The fairy-tale hero Pinocchio had a real-life prototype, as emerged from a letter by the author, Carlo Collodi, who reported that he wished to immortalise the story of a man he had seen in childhood, one Pinocco Sanchez, with wooden prosthetic legs and a
The fairy-tale hero Pinocchio had a real-life prototype, as emerged from a letter by the author, Carlo Collodi, who reported that he wished to immortalise the story of a man he had seen in childhood, one Pinocco Sanchez, with wooden prosthetic legs and a wooden patch in place
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Nicholas II before the Two Chambers of the State Duma, Winter Palace, 1906
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At his trial, Patriarch Nikon explained why he wore a black klobuk with a cherub and two panagias
A six-winged seraph on the klobuk of Patriarch Nikon. Collection of the New Jerusalem Museum. When Patriarch Nikon was asked at his trial why he wore a black klobuk with a cherub and two panagias, Nikon replied thus: "Black klobuks are worn by the Greek patriarchs, and I
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The Rules of Honest Trade from the Sixteenth Century: Do Not Sell Dyed Cloth for Taffeta, Verdigris-Green Copper for Gold, or Glass for a Diamond
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Judging by this fish-tailed monk from a thirteenth-century bestiary, the Little Mermaid did have somewhere to turn besides dry land and the sea witch
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Granddaughter of merchant Grigory Yeliseyev in the USSR gave an inheritance of millions of francs to the state
The merchant Grigory Grigoryevich Yeliseyev, one of the richest men in the country and grandson of the founder of a famous trading dynasty, managed to leave Russia in 1920; by then he had property and accounts abroad and had no difficulty arranging his life. But not all of his children