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Quentin Tarantino has announced that his next major project will be a stage play. He plans to present the production on the stage of a London West End theatre. The text of the play is already finished, but active work on the staging will begin in early 2026 and will
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Moscow: 250,000 - 305,000 - 601,000 - 1,175,000 Saint Petersburg: 220,000 - 442,000 - 668,000 - 1,418,000
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Summer is a relatively quiet season on the auction market, but the Old Masters sale at Christie's in London on 1 July proved an exception. Canaletto's "Venice: The Return of the Bucentaur on Ascension Day" sold for £31.9 million, a new record price
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In recent years, however, the museum has faced falling attendance, especially among foreign visitors, who make up its core audience. In 2019–2020, for instance, there were more than 600,000 young people aged 16 to 24; in 2023–2024 there were only 357,000. The Art Newspaper writes that
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This is not the only mention of polygyny and polyandry in the British Isles. Already in Julius Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War there is an account containing the detail that "[in Britain] ten or twelve men have wives in common, and particularly brothers with brothers, and
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One of the strangest stories of burial is attributed to the funeral of the English poet Thomas Hardy in 1928. Hardy lived to the age of 87. His body was cremated and the ashes interred in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, beside Charles Dickens. His heart, however, was cut
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The Bank of England is considering replacing the images of Winston Churchill and other historical figures on its banknotes with other "symbols of national identity". Among those named are Stonehenge, the oak tree, fish and chips and football. Though why stop at fish and chips? Let us go
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No, Charles III was not born on the same day as Donald Trump. But it so happens that both of them celebrated a birthday today. Only Donald Fredovich does so by right of birth, whereas Charles Philipovich does so by right of the crown. The point is that all English
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Among the notable exhibits are Picasso's largest theatrical work, made for the ballet Le Train Bleu as part of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes seasons in Paris (because of its size it has rarely been displayed), and an 18-tonne seventeenth-century colonnade from Agra. In the
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