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The King and Queen of Denmark Receive Supreme Court Judges, the Life Guards and the Officer Corps of the Guards Regiment at the New Year Reception at Amalienborg Palace
Frederik X became reigning King of Denmark on 14 January 2024. Only a year has passed since he became head of the Danish state, supreme commander of the armed forces of Denmark and head of the Church of the Danish people.
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King Frederik X Alters the Arms of the Kingdom of Denmark in Response to Trump's Remarks about Buying Greenland
The arms of the Faroe Islands, a silver ram, and of Greenland, a silver polar bear, both of which had shared a single field since 1819, now occupy fields of their own. To make room, the three crowned azure lions with hearts had to go, symbolising as they did the
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Paul I's tutor, Platon, Archbishop of Moscow and Kaluga, in his sermon on the feast of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, 22 October 1779, reasons on good and ill fortune, paying due respect precisely to the state of misfortune
According to Archbishop Platon, we reckon as misfortunes those occurrences that run contrary to our wishes, because we discern in them no hidden benefit, whether from our natural deficiency of understanding or from paying too little heed to things. The heavenly physician hands us a cup of bitterness, in the
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The Famous Beard Token, or a Metal Receipt for the Tax on Wearing a Beard in the Time of Peter I
The compulsory shaving of beards, confirmed by a decree of 1698, did not apply to men who paid, depending on their estate, from 30 to 600 roubles a year. The fact of payment was certified by the issue of a token bearing a beard and the inscription "The money
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Nicholas II at the Gym
Nicholas II at the gym. No, you're not seeing things
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A chest with a roast ox and other provisions, uncovered and covered, set up along the route of Elizabeth Petrovna's ceremonial procession into Moscow on 28 February 1742
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Princess Alexandra of Kent Turns 88: She Is Now the Third Most Senior Member of the British Royal Family, After Her Elder Brother, the 89-Year-Old Duke of Kent, and His 91-Year-Old Wife Katharine
Princess Alexandra of Kent, the most Russian member of the British royal family and a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, is the granddaughter of Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna and the great-great-granddaughter of Emperor Alexander II. Princess Alexandra of Kent is the last member of the English royal
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Some Excerpts from the Book "Freemasons as Enemies of the Christian Church and the State"
...Preaching complete non-interference in religious and state affairs, Freemasonry, with its closed character, its secret signs and rites, constituted a kind of separate secret state, which in governments was bound to arouse various suspicions and apprehensions, and was therefore subjected by them to prohibitions and persecutions. These persecutions began
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A Snow Statue of Queen Victoria, Made in the Winter of 1890
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Here almost every French king was crowned over the course of 1000 years
Here almost every French king was crowned over the course of 1000 years. The Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Reims is the cathedral of the city of Reims, built in the 13th century on the site of a more ancient church. Although the cathedral, in the style of the High
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The Emperor's Bedchamber at the Château de Compiègne
The château remained a residence of the French kings until Napoleon III. The old photograph shows the original appearance of the bedchamber as Napoleon found it. In 1919 it burned down and was restored to the form shown in the modern photograph