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The Hall with Palms in Stuttgart's New Palace, Created 150 Years Before Art Deco
The New Palace in Stuttgart, the hall with palms. The interior was created 150 years before the appearance of the Art Deco style
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The death of Richard III at Bosworth and Shakespeare's line about a horse
It is to the Battle of Bosworth, or rather to Shakespeare's reading of it, that we owe the phrase "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!": the mount of Richard III Plantagenet had become stuck in a bog. As we know, no horse was
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Silver Boar Badge of Richard III Helps Locate the Battle of Bosworth Site
A badge bearing a silver boar, the emblem of Richard III, has been found at Bosworth. Thanks to this token, which belonged to one of the king's closest knights, archaeologists have been able to establish the exact site of the battle
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King Richard's last battle and the examination of his remains showing many wounds
Today is the day of the death of Richard III, killed at the Battle of Bosworth as the result of a betrayal. According to legend, despite the treachery of Lord Stanley, which decided the outcome of the battle, Richard plunged into the enemy camp with a small band of knights
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Queen Victoria Presents a Bible to an Ambassador from an East African Country
Queen Victoria presents a Bible to an ambassador from an East African country. I do love English humour
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The body of Henry IV when the Saint-Denis crypts were opened during the Revolution
There is one more detail in this story that I have not mentioned before. When the crypts of the French kings at Saint-Denis were opened during the Revolution, beginning with Clovis, who lived in the fifth century, the body of Henry IV was found in an extraordinarily good state
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The cradle of Henry IV rests upon the blue royal standard of the Bourbons; it served as a travelling cot for the heir, whom his grandfather, Henri d'Albret, King of Navarre, took with him on hunts and long rides
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A cradle made from a tortoise shell beneath the banners of Navarre and the Bourbons: the cradle of the heir of Navarre, who would become the first King of France of the Bourbon dynasty, as Henry IV
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Ivory furniture set given by Louis XVI to Tipu Sultan at the Salar Jung Museum
An ivory suite presented by Louis XVI to Tipu Sultan, ruler of the Indian state of Mysore, is on display in the Salar Jung Museum, India's largest art museum. A question: why carry sand to the beach?
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The portraits of Napoleon's younger sister, Caroline Murat, Queen of Naples, recall today's Instagram divas: the same expression and the same angle everywhere, only the frocks and parures change
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The original text on the horseshoe cast by the horse of King James II
The original text on the horseshoe cast by the horse of King James II. See for yourself, if you doubt it
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The Kelso pavement horseshoe and two origin stories, James II or Charles Edward Stuart
In the Scottish town of Kelso, not far from historic Roxburgh, where in 1460 James, King of Scots, was mortally wounded by a fragment of an exploding cannon, there is a curiosity of a particular kind: a large horseshoe set into the paving stones. It is held that on this