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Someone here has said I do not look much like Sandro, but Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich, standing between Maria Georgievna with Olga Alexandrovna and Xenia Alexandrovna with Mikhail Alexandrovich, does look quite like him?
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Do you know why the little spaniel wears pearl earrings?
Do you know why the little spaniel wears pearl earrings? Because he belongs to little Mademoiselle de Blois, the legitimised daughter of Louis XIV by the Marquise de Montespan. But in his eyes there is still a "dog's life"
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In this wine glass sits the devil who is carrying the House of Hanover to hell
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The Sundial of Charles II
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Charles II's glass sundial at Whitehall and its destruction by the Earl of Rochester
In a book on Whitehall, one of the loveliest palaces in Europe and, in its day, the largest in the world, I came upon a description of a whimsical toy belonging to the merry King Charles II. In the centre of the Privy Garden at Whitehall stood a unique sundial.
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Procopius of Caesarea describes Empress Theodora in his pamphlet “The Secret History”
Procopius of Caesarea gathered a great deal of gossip about the Emperor Justinian and his wife Theodora in his pamphlet the "Secret History", a disputed and scandalous work over which historians are still quarrelling. The book contains the following diverting description of the Empress Theodora, whose biography is
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The marble lions that lay for 409 years at the foot of the tomb of the French king Charles V and vanished from Saint-Denis in the years of the Revolution, were found 200 years later and sold at auction for £9 million
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Richard II confers knighthood on four Irish kings
Richard II knights the Irish kings of Connacht, Ulster, Thomond and Leinster. In the first place, it is beautiful..
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Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna with their eldest daughter Olga Nikolaevna, and her grandmother Queen Victoria with the heir, Prince Albert
Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna with their eldest daughter Olga Nikolaevna, and her grandmother Queen Victoria with the heir, Prince Albert. Well, and who here is the most stylish?
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How Do You Know the Renaissance Has Arrived?
How do you know the Renaissance has arrived? The Triumph of Emperor Maximilian bears a strong resemblance to a car-audio festival, only with the sound systems harnessed to camels and deer
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