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The Regatta in Venice, 18 September 1881
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Charlotte Brontë's wedding bonnet 170 years after her wedding
Charlotte Brontë's wedding bonnet. 170 years on, still at the height of fashion
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When Peggy Guggenheim was asked how many husbands she had had, she replied: “My own, or other women’s?”
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Mirror for Princes: a genre of medieval literature written to instruct rulers, containing precepts and recommendations for dukes, princes and inexperienced kings
Thus a French Speculum Principis of the early sixteenth century contains the counsel not to "speak against the sun" and not to "make water facing the sun"
Faith · Observations · Mores
Black vestments and symbols of mortality on the Catholic All Souls' Day
In Catholicism, on the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed, it is the custom to wear black vestments with special decoration. This particular liturgical occasion is accompanied by the symbolism of skeletons, the fires of purgatory, decay, transience and even coffins. Modern culture would call this aesthetic “gloomy”, which, however,
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King George V of England Mows the Lawn under the Watchful Eye of His Mother, the Dowager Queen Alexandra
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Polish Dress in Dutch Portraits of Children of the 17th Century, from Bol to Netscher
Here we have a most interesting instance of foreigners borrowing national dress: Dutch merchants in Poland dressed their children in costumes stylised after the clothing of the Polish nobility. The first portrait, of 1656, by the Dutch painter Ferdinand Bol, a pupil of Rembrandt, shows the son of a Dutch
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Card with photo of Charles and Camilla skiing in Scotland sent to butler Cyril Dickman
Christmas Card of 2010 with Autographs of Prince Charles and Camilla. Inside the card, which measures 12×8, is mounted a colour photograph of Charles and Camilla skiing in Scotland, inscribed in black ink "To Cyril and Eve from Charles and "Camilla". The recipient, Cyril Dickman, was
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Stalin's mother Ekaterina Geladze wanted to see her son become a priest
When Stalin visited his aged mother shortly before her death in October 1935, according to her doctor's recollections, they spoke briefly and Stalin tried to explain what it was that he did. "Mother, do you remember our Tsar? I am something like a tsar now," said
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Recalling the making of "Lawrence of Arabia", Peter O'Toole writes that the mother of one of the film crew's local guides, a woman of considerable years, questioned him about the women of the Christian tribe and their way of life, marvelling at his white
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