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British Actor Michael Gambon, Who Played Dumbledore, Has Died
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The Sixteenth-Century Poet and Courtier Sir John Harington, Ancestor of Kit Harington, Who Played Jon Snow in "Game of Thrones", Invented the First Flushing Lavatory for the Ageing Queen Elizabeth I
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It is held that nothing so enriched the English, or allowed so many of them to amass the vast fortunes they are known to possess, as the wars with the Spaniards in the days of Queen Elizabeth
It is held that nothing so enriched the English, or allowed so many of them to amass the vast fortunes they are known to possess, as the wars with the Spaniards in the days of Queen Elizabeth. Everyone was permitted to engage in privateering, and they plundered not only the
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Behind the houses on Harley Street, London
Behind the houses on Harley Street, London. 1925. Algernon Cecil Newton
Art · London · Museums
Madonna and Child, attributed to Antonello da Messina, 1460s
In the infant's hands is a pomegranate. The painting is usually called the Salting Madonna, after the man who bequeathed it to the National Gallery in London.
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Would someone please make the Moscow Metro a diagram like the one at London's Piccadilly Circus station!
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Princess Anne and Her Adidas Sunglasses: An Ageless Alliance
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Does the statue of Gandalf in an English abbey ring no bells?
In fact, this is how in 1755 the sculptor Alexander Cederbach envisaged the figure of Diogenes of Sinope for the adornment of Lacock Abbey in the county of Wiltshire in England. The lantern in the sage's hand is an allusion to the story of how Diogenes walked about
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The Parthenon Sculptures in the British Museum, 1885
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Thomas Coutts, aged 80, head of Coutts Bank in the late eighteenth century, with his second wife, the 37-year-old actress Harriot Mellon
Thomas Coutts, aged 80, head of Coutts Bank in the late eighteenth century, with his second wife, the 37-year-old actress Harriot Mellon. They married in 1815, and the old man lived for another 7 years. After his death, Lady Harriot married the future Duke of St Albans, who
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