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The Moscow Romanovs took their wives from Russian noble families, and their blood was purely Russian blood. But from Peter the Great onwards it became the custom to marry the heirs to the throne to foreigners, chiefly Germans, and the Russian ruling dynasty turned into a thoroughbred non-Russian one.
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Students are forbidden to marry for the whole time of their residence at the university: so runs paragraph 17 of the section "Rules for Students of the University During the Course of Study" in the "Rules for Students and Non-Matriculated Auditors… If one takes this fact
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Golden sceptre of Empress Charlotte of Mexico goes under the hammer in Monte Carlo, estimated at €100,000 to €200,000. This 34-centimetre symbol of imperial power, of 22-carat gold and weighing more than 400 grams, is adorned with diamonds of exceptional spectrum, rubies, emeralds, pearls, perforation, filigree
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Bourgeois civilisation has borne all its luxuriant fruits. America has taken first place among the free and educated countries in the level of development of the productive forces of united human labour, in the use of machinery and of all the wonders of modern technology. At the same time America
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The future King Edward VIII of England was invested as Prince of Wales on 13 July 1911, at the age of 17. The eldest great-grandson of Queen Victoria in the direct male line, he bore this title from 1910 to 1936, then for 10 months was king, after the
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The Napoleon signature on the poster of the much-discussed film can easily be read as "Locomotive" In fact Napoleon more often signed himself Bonaparte, and at different periods of his life the signatures scarcely resemble one another. But there were locomotives too, in 1804 and 1805, for
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Urban legends of 1917: the capital teems with street sellers of cigarettes, many of them sick soldiers, many contagious, often syphilitics, who might infect the cigarettes and sell them on. Greetings to poisoned needles, poisoned apples, infected envelopes, the spraying of viruses and dangerous perfumes. A hundred years have passed,
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The Provisional Government has resolved to forbid money transfers abroad and deposits of roubles into the accounts of persons resident abroad. June 1917, and I remember it as if it were yesterday