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The Little Ice Age and the fashion for sleighs at the French court
The forecasters' promise that there will be no summer recalled the run of rainy years in the fourteenth century that heralded, for the Russian lands, the onset of the Little Ice Age. Which would give way to a brief interglacial in the 1440s. The coldest phase of the Little
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The one in this family who has been endowed with aristocratic features is the younger son of George Irakliyevich Bagration-Mukhransky by Doña Nuria Llopis y Oliart: "Prince" Guram, more often called Hugo Bagrationi
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Wedding of the Georgian heirs at the Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi in 2008
One cannot, truth be told, say that the couple of Georgian heirs look particularly regal. Photograph from the wedding in 2008 at the Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi
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Today the heir to the crown is said to be the child born of the marriage of David Bagration-Mukhransky and Anna Bagration-Gruzinskaya, whose family was precisely that of the Most Serene Princes and was reckoned to possess royal dignity
Today the heir to the crown is said to be the child born of the marriage of David Bagration-Mukhransky and Anna Bagration-Gruzinskaya, whose family was precisely that of the Most Serene Princes and was reckoned to possess royal dignity. It is the second time in two centuries that
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The Bagration-Mukhransky family, its marriages with the Romanovs and its Tbilisi mansion
With talk in Georgia of putting the restoration of the monarchy to a referendum, I have decided to continue my account of the Bagration-Mukhransky dynasty. The Georgian noble house of Bagration-Mukhransky is linked with the House of Romanov by several dynastic marriages. The most significant of them, of
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Portrait of Empress Catherine II by an Unknown Artist
Portrait of Catherine II by an unknown artist. Or how men thrust out the lower jaw in selfies
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This is Ivan the Terrible versus the European one, who wished to marry in England, raised companies of pikemen, musketeers and oprichniki from among the Germans, and waged his wars with the help of hired Western Europeans
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The Vendôme Column in Paris, from the statue of Napoleon to its destruction in 1871
The original turns out not to differ greatly from its prototype, save for a somewhat enlarged viewing platform on the, er... summit of the column, and a statue of Napoleon set at the very top. Originally the place on the Place Vendôme was occupied by a monument to Louis XIV,
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Nothing Better, Save a Cake Dedicated to the Manoeuvres of Nicholas II
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In 1577 Sir Humphrey Gilbert presented Elizabeth I with a narwhal tusk adorned with gold, but claimed it was the horn of a sea unicorn
In 1577 Sir Humphrey Gilbert presented Elizabeth I with a narwhal tusk adorned with gold, but claimed it was the horn of a sea unicorn. Though we know perfectly well that these are quite different animals, the rascal!
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The Virgin Mary's Veil at Chartres Cathedral and how the relic reached France
Chartres is the first Gothic cathedral of France, dedicated to the Virgin, where one of the greatest Christian relics is kept: the veil of the Virgin Mary, in which she was clothed when she gave birth to Jesus. The silk camisia has been kept in the city since the 9th