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A friend on Insta posted a photo of the memorial stele to Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé in the Majorelle Garden, not far from their villa Oasis in Marrakech, and I noticed the plaque: I remember it used to say simply "In memoriam Yves Saint Laurent"

A friend on Insta posted a photo of the memorial stele to Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé in the Majorelle Garden, not far from their villa Oasis in Marrakech, and I noticed the plaque: I remember it used to say simply "In memoriam Yves Saint Laurent", at

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Cindy Crawford in Giorgio Armani's 1992 campaign has two Rassies from «Electronic», the Russian schoolboy sci-fi film, at once

Cindy Crawford in Giorgio Armani's 1992 campaign has two Rassies from «Electronic», the Russian schoolboy sci-fi film, at once. I have always dreamed of having one like that. But then the Airedale terrier, bred in England in the mid-nineteenth century, is not merely handsome: it also

Archaeology · Moscow · Nature · Ethnography

Tiles with crowned cats found at excavations on Tverskaya and Nikolskaya streets in Moscow

In the Seventeenth Century Muscovites Loved Cats So Much That They Depicted Them Wearing Crowns. During work at two archaeological sites in Moscow, on Tverskaya Street and on the grounds of the Chizhevsky Compound on Nikolskaya Street, clay tiles were discovered bearing the image of a cat in a crown.

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The Doggystyle Calendar by the Austrian Photographer Daniel Gebhard

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The famous horse celebrated for being able to read and count is believed to have perished during the First World War

In its day, the mental powers of this horse astonished the European public. Investigators, however, were able to establish that the horse could neither count nor read after all, but could pick up even the slightest changes in a person's facial expression, and it was this that helped

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The King and Queen of Spain in Valencia, Struck by an Unprecedented and, as some write, Man-Made Flood

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Vladimir Nabokov Hunting Butterflies

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Monkey at sea mistaken for a person, rescued by boat, swims away again

In 1950 a solitary male proboscis monkey was spotted far out in the South China Sea. The passengers of a cruise liner mistook the animal for a human being, and a boat was lowered to go to its assistance. The monkey clambered aboard, rested for a while, but then leapt

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May this rare, vanishing Japanese bird, known as the snow fairy, bring you a good morning

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A piglet in the 1578 work by Hans Hoffmann

Does anyone still remember the popular baby hippo? To my mind, the sweet piglet by Hans Hoffmann, 1578, is not one whit less charming. Though, is there a single young creature in the world that fails to melt the heart?

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Third supermoon of the year on 17 October and traditional names of the Moon

A Moon such as tonight's was called by the American Indians the Moon of Dying Grass. The European tradition, for its part, has kept the name of the Hunter's Moon, since by its light game could be spotted with ease even at night. This is the

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