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A shoot by Ellen von Unwerth for Ulyana Sergeenko's new collection, with Natalia Vodianova and Katya Letskaya, Ulyana herself and her daughter Vasilisa (attention, please), held on a ranch in the outskirts of Paris. I would never have thought such a thing existed. It turns out that Ellen
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Hugh Bonneville has posted a photo of the greatest British actors of our time at the celebration of Noël Coward's 125th anniversary: Derek Jacobi, 86, Judi Dench, nearly 90, Ian McKellen, 85. The dinosaurs are still in the ranks 💥
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Plunderers of Etruscan Tombs Wanted by Police. The Italian Minister of Culture, Alessandro Giuli, has announced that the Italian authorities have put a stop to illegal excavations of an Etruscan burial site in Umbria, and that the police are now searching for two Etruscan treasure hunters. The wanted men are
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Love Story, Viktor Tsoi. 1987
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It's Professor Dowell's head! A brilliant prop from Leonid Menaker's film, based on the novel by Alexander Belyaev. The living laboratory is on display on the staircase of the main building of Lenfilm
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Yet another brilliant incarnation of Gary Oldman in Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula
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The language of Dostoevsky is a subject not merely interesting but essential to understanding his work. Is it possible to grasp the personality of a character without delving into his vocabulary? This is surely one of the first steps to take. Of course, many of the words will prove to
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In its day, the mental powers of this horse astonished the European public. Investigators, however, were able to establish that the horse could neither count nor read after all, but could pick up even the slightest changes in a person's facial expression, and it was this that helped
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Are Snakes Necessary? Hugo Martzditz A book with this title is being read by the hero of the 1941 film The Lady Eve, Charles Pike, heir to millions, in the bar of an ocean liner sailing from South America. He has spent a year in the jungle studying snakes. Which
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But in fact this helmet, which I wrote about briefly in my book, is the sole surviving piece of the armour presented by the Emperor Maximilian I as a diplomatic gift to the English king Henry VIII in 1514. I trust no one will dispute that the old man would
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It might as easily have been Vladlen Davydov, Svetlana Druzhinina and Klara Luchko. And they would have been drinking tea with blackcurrant jam