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Irish peasant woman Johanna O'Connor speaks of her longevity at 110
Mrs Johanna O'Connor, a peasant woman from a mountain hamlet in Ireland, at the age of 110: "I still smoke my pipe and do not think a person ought to be without a drop of punch, wine or stout... My secret of longevity? There is no secret,
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🇩🇰 Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary at the presentation of the Queen's portrait, marking her 80th birthday, at Frederiksborg Castle
🇩🇰 Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary at the presentation of the Queen's portrait, marking her 80th birthday, at Frederiksborg Castle. All in all, I still have but one question for this charming and modest queen, in every respect: who styles you, my
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Calls to wash hands during the epidemic and a 17th-century lady removing her gloves
When the epidemic began, I was greatly puzzled by the vast stream of information about the need to wash one's hands, until I began to look closely at photographs on social media in which my acquaintances in Europe and the United States pad about their homes in outdoor
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The picture is, of course, about fashionable parasols in London in the 1790s, but the hats here are no less remarkable
The picture is, of course, about fashionable parasols in London in the 1790s, but the hats here are no less remarkable. I should like to self-isolate beneath an exceedingly wide-brimmed hat in the style of a galero
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“The Beatles and the Rolling Stones and many others who took up the baton of madness from Presley were very popular, hundreds of thousands were invested to keep their reputation from fading”
“The Beatles and the Rolling Stones and many others who took up the baton of madness from Presley were very popular, hundreds of thousands were invested to keep their reputation from fading. And yet none of them lasted long.” An amusing note in Sovetskaya kultura by Tatyana Kvardakova. Tatyana Vladimirovna
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Nature has been so cleansed during quarantine that the pigeons have returned to the Vendôme Column
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Quarantine Lifted
Quarantine lifted. Daniel Hopfer, 1500-1510
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Greetings to all my Mayanist acquaintances
Greetings to all my Mayanist acquaintances. And no greetings whatever to the Fomenkoites 🙃
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Well, well: Nikita Mikhalkov has moved to the Spas television channel
Well, well: Nikita Mikhalkov has moved to the Spas television channel. He tells us how the Emperor Constantine hamstrung his own horses(!), and how the Emperor Diocletian grew cabbages. For which, much thanks
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Lewis Sayre's 1882 apparatus for treating tuberculous spondylitis
No, this is not a device for readjusting to normal locomotion after emerging from a three-month sofa quarantine. All the more so as we have no such emergence to look forward to just yet. This is an advertisement for an apparatus of 1882 devised by Lewis Sayre. The American
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Meanwhile, on the First Channel: a sumptuous concert for the 180th anniversary of the Pushkin Museum
Meanwhile, on the First Channel: a sumptuous concert for the 180th anniversary of the Pushkin Museum. They are showing an excerpt from Kirill Serebrennikov's ballet "Nureyev". I too should like Renata Litvinova at my birthday (And preferably without Shvydkoy