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When You Are Thirty, but You Are a Heroine of Balzac

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As for that amusing piece of fan fiction ranking the tallest buildings on Earth, in which the Burj Khalifa in Dubai falls slightly short of the tower of Barad-dûr in Mordor, let me remind you that this is nothing more than conjecture: nowhere in the text

And if, like the author of this infographic, you are working from the visual impressions of Peter Jackson's film adaptation, then one must not forget the Tower of Ecthelion on the uppermost tier of Minas Tirith, or Orthanc, for instance. Still, the comparison of the aesthetics of the

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Alexander Molok on German foreign policy and a thousand years of attacks on Europe

A Thousand Years of War, War Without Any Particular Cause. So it turns out the Germans have been terrorising the whole of Europe for a thousand years. "The seizure and plundering of foreign lands, the enslavement and extermination of other peoples have from time immemorial formed the essence and

A Christmas tree ornament shaped like a figure in a crown and a white fur-trimmed cape hangs on a branch beside a red toy bird.

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King Charles III and Queen Camilla as Christmas tree ornaments

How do you like this Father Frost and Snow Maiden? King Charles III and Queen Camilla as Christmas tree ornaments

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Beware!

Beware! Take care: these two, one in a white greatcoat, the other in a brown one, may well be Russian generals spying on our barriers French caricature of the Second Empire era, 1854. Jean Geoffroy

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Igor Stravinsky: "I so enjoy drinking Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Strava-whisky"

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The BBC Has Made Isaac Newton Black

Beethoven, Cleopatra and Hannibal have already been black, so why not Newton this time?

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What do you make of the road signs in a book of 1400?

What do you make of the road signs in a book of 1400? I think they are magnificent

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It's a little chilly, so I've put another dog on your bed

George Sprod, 1956

Black-and-white still of a man in a dark pinstriped suit looking at his reflection in a mirror in a bedroom.

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The real name of Cary Grant was Archibald Leach

"Everybody wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant" Archibald Leach (the real name of Cary Grant)

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The Lego Birkin Is Too Good to Be True

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Jaguar and tiger skin trousers of Texans Samuel Richardson and John King Fisher

Former Governor of Texas Sam Houston, who gave his name to the city of Houston, in a jaguar-skin waistcoat. Captain Samuel Richardson of the 2nd Texas Cavalry Regiment, Confederate Army, in trousers of jaguar skin. But these are mild fashions compared with the habits of the Texas gunman John