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Having breakfast at my beloved KM20 and delighting that a copy of unloved Prince Harry's book was a gift 🥰🥰 And wishing everyone a good morning 🌞 I set about reading at once, and so far these are not the worst memoirs I have come across
Not without oddities, though. On the very first page I opened there turned up an original passage in which Harry supposes that his DNA holds a rudimentary memory of the terrorist attack of 1979 in which Lord Mountbatten, his great-great-uncle, was killed
Archive · Science · Humour
In the future you will be able to carry a telephone in your pocket!
April 1963
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"Only don't copy it word for word." "All right."
Cinema · Mores · Humour
Mikhail Romm recalled how, during the filming of his 1934 debut, "Boule de Suif", after the story by Guy de Maupassant (itself, incidentally, a debut), two acknowledged beauties of the day came into collision on set: Galina Sergeyeva, who played the lead…
The young actresses were both 20 years old, and both were fresh and lovely. But it so happened that all the men of the film crew showed an interest in only one of the two girls: Okunevskaya captured the whole of the male attention. And this upset Sergeyeva greatly, the
Books · Observations · Humour
Critic Belinsky's assessment of Koltsov's poetry
He possesses a talent not great, but genuine; a gift of creation neither deep nor strong, but real and unforced. Belinsky on the poetry of Koltsov. Praise of a sort, yet somehow rather insulting
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Montparnasse Has Never Been as Beautiful as Under Macron
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What to Wear with an Oversized Puffer Jacket?
Books · Ethnography · Humour
Valentin Berestov's poem about what Pushkin did not know
Pushkin Studies. What was there that great Pushkin never knew? He never knew a single chastushka, Never saw a single matryoshka In her lacquered little dress. The birch as the symbol of Rus' He never called, God forbid. In his day it was not suited To that role. It
Art · Monarchies · Observations · Humour
One must pay tribute to the skill of the French portraitist Louis Hersent
One must pay tribute to the skill of the French portraitist Louis Hersent. Maria Amalia of Naples, Queen of the French from 1830 to 1848, who, incidentally, fretted to her dying day that she had taken the place of the Bourbons, shown in a portrait of the 1840s and in
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Proud representatives of subjugated peoples gaze upon the magnificent symbol of oppression
Proud representatives of subjugated peoples gaze upon the magnificent symbol of oppression. And every member of the Commonwealth, looking at the British crown, will recall what it took from him. A great thing, all the same
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