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In 1874 Julia Margaret Cameron, one of the most celebrated women photographers and portraitists of the nineteenth century, created a series of allegorical portraits of the heroes of the Arthurian legends to illustrate a collection of poems on the legends
In 1874 Julia Margaret Cameron, one of the most celebrated women photographers and portraitists of the nineteenth century, created a series of allegorical portraits of the heroes of the Arthurian legends to illustrate "Idylls of the King", a collection of poems on the legends of King Arthur by
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Underwater photograph by Bob Frame for Premier Magazine, 1998
Why didn't Brendan Fraser play the Amphibian Man? Photo for Premier Magazine, 1998, Bob Frame
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What One May Write About
It is forbidden to write: of the bureaucrat, Of the officers, of the soldier, Of the strike, of the movement, Of the clergy, of the ferment, Of the peasant, of the ministry, Of the execution, of the Cossacks' brutality, Of the police, of arrests, Of robberies, of manifestos! But
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Lunin's reaction to his 1826 sentence in Rosen's memoirs and Svistunov's rebuttal
The memoirs of the Decembrist Andrey Yevgenyevich Rosen contain a curious detail about the Decembrist Lunin. When Mikhail Sergeyevich Lunin, who had confessed under interrogation to proposing the murder of the Tsar on the road to Tsarskoye Selo, heard the sentence read out condemning him to penal servitude in perpetuity,
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Women of the Imperial Family as Colonels-in-Chief of Russian Regiments
Empress Alexandra Feodorovna in the uniform of Her Majesty's Life-Guards Uhlan Regiment, of which she was Colonel-in-Chief from 1903. On their fourteenth birthdays, the emperor's daughters became colonels of one of the formations of the Russian Imperial Army. The eldest daughter of Nicholas
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The greatest tragedy has struck the peoples of Turkey and Syria on Monday 6 February
The greatest tragedy has struck the peoples of Turkey and Syria on Monday 6 February. Two earthquakes, of magnitude 7.8 and 7.7, have affected vast territories in both countries. It is hard to judge as a non-specialist, but the epicentre of the earthquakes seems to lie in
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Consistory of Pius XII on 18 February 1946: a colour photograph of the ceremony appointing 32 new cardinals
An extremely rare colour photograph of the papal consistory of 18 February 1946. A cardinal kisses the slipper of Pope Pius XII as a token of obedience and devotion to the Pontiff. The rite precedes the bestowal of the cardinal's red galero hat. On that day 32 new
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Queen Mary and the future King Charles III, her great-grandson, little Charles
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English satire of the Prince Regent, the future George IV, and his foreign tailors
To waste your time before a Glass Exposes oft a monstrous Ass! An English satire on the Prince Regent, surrounded by foreign tailors recommended by Prince Esterházy. The pointedly boundless lower deck of the future King George IV, at that time Regent of Great Britain in place of his incapacitated
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New York in 1830
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An excellent infographic describing the standards, flags and banners displayed at the coronation of Elizabeth II
An excellent infographic describing the standards, flags and banners displayed at the coronation of Elizabeth II. The English Tatler