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The handsome Ivan Yankovsky backs the "I Want RGADA Remotely" campaign

The handsome Ivan Yankovsky backs the "I Want RGADA Remotely" campaign. Ah, Vanya, we all want things remotely just now, and not merely the State Archive of Early Acts. But it is a good and noble cause, and I support it wholeheartedly.

Coloured caricature: a man in a striped suit and a woman in a white high-waisted dress walk hand in hand beneath enormous multicoloured feathers.

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High waistlines in the fashion of Georgian Londoners in a caricature of 1794

What do you know about the high waist? Look at these ordinary Londoners of the Georgian era. 1794 might never have been

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What a dreadful woman she is, that Portsmouth Kate: back in the Welsh news again, this time for causing a disturbance and using foul language in the street!

What a dreadful woman she is, that Portsmouth Kate: back in the Welsh news again, this time for causing a disturbance and using foul language in the street! But to my mind, the countless arrests merely show the unbending character of this 34-year-old madam

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Michel Piccoli worked trouserless before it became mainstream

Michel Piccoli worked trouserless before it became mainstream. A still from Pierre Granier-Deferre's 1981 film "A Strange Affair" ("L'Étrange Affaire"). The circumstances in question are far from the humour with which a state of semi-undress is received today. The affair

Old black-and-white group photograph of seven people by a house window, two elderly sitters in the centre.

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Mozart's wife Constanze Weber at 78 in a group photograph

- Your grandmother? - Not quite. This is Mozart's wife, the 78-year-old Constanze Weber.

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Now would be just the moment to flee to Switzerland in a Rolls-Royce, with the boot full of gold bars and two million francs under the leather back seat, even if in old-issue notes, from before the 1960 redenomination, and most certainly with a distinguis

Now would be just the moment to flee to Switzerland in a Rolls-Royce, with the boot full of gold bars and two million francs under the leather back seat, even if in old-issue notes, from before the 1960 redenomination, and most certainly with a distinguished Louis Vuitton travel

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When it suits the desired conclusion, Russia may be recognised as Europe

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I cannot tell whether this kitten is on the verge of a nervous breakdown or is a hideous demon from a grimoire

Children and a Mousetrap. Dominicus van Tol, 1660s.

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Pure Downton Abbey stills

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A blue and white platter showing a bull in a landscape with a man standing on the right, displayed on a shelf with a red background.

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The Durham ox, which died in 1807 weighing over 1,200 kg, appeared on plates

This Durham ox won posthumous fame, and a place on plates and postcards, merely by weighing a great deal. At the time of his death in 1807 he weighed over 1,200 kg

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A curious sketch of Napoleon's mother

There is an amusing sketch of Napoleon's mother. A woman of peculiar temperament, she had in her day flatly refused to live at the Trianon; the life of the court held no interest for her and she passed her time in rather secluded fashion, even declining to attend

Old oil painting of a nude man and woman seated beneath a tree with a serpent, with a lion lying nearby and doves in the foreground.

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Johann Militz, a representative of Austrian painting of the 18th century

God forbid, of course, to find oneself in paradise with such an Adam. Johann Militz, an Austrian artist of the eighteenth century