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Louis-Philippe was such a mediocre ruler that he had to be reborn as a gel polish before anyone would say a good word about him

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Four generations of the Swedish royal family: King Gustaf V, his son Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf, his grandson Gustaf Adolf and his great-grandson Carl Gustaf, born in 1946

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Prince Harry turns 39 today, fifth in line to the British throne

Prince Harry turns 39 today, fifth in line to the British throne. One would wish him a little sense, and that the queue never, in fact, reaches him or his descendants

Silhouette of the Peter the Great monument against an orange and blue sunset sky. In the foreground are an arched bridge, barges with workers and a crane boom over the water.

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Peter the Great monument at sunset, with a bridge under construction

Dark silhouette of a sailing-ship monument against an orange and blue sunset sky; in the foreground a steel bridge span on barges and a crane hook.

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Silhouette of the Peter the Great monument at sunset behind a bridge span on barges

NB! · Geography · Maps · Science

Map of the World According to Hecataeus of Miletus, the Father of Geography, Who Lived in the 6th Century BC

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Saruman, on hearing that some hobbits intend to destroy the Ring of Power

Broadcast frame: a man in a suit at a microphone, beside a screen with 3D scans of an elongated skull and neck vertebrae. Caption: José de Jesús Zalce Benítez, forensic specialist.

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Mexican Chamber of Deputies hearing: scan of a skull on screen, 12 September 2023

Broadcast frame: a small desiccated figure with an elongated head on pale cloth. Captions read «Audiencia pública México», Cámara de Diputados, 12 September.

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Mexican Congress hearing on unidentified anomalous phenomena, 12 September 2023

A grey tugboat and a red barge moored by a canal embankment. Red-brick buildings and a glass-roofed structure line the banks under a blue sky with a single cloud.

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Tugboat and barge moored along a city canal on a sunny day

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Legend

Painting: a brown asteroid with pink patches and big blue eyes drifts through starry space, surrounded by purple comet tails and blue nebulae.

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