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Everyone is curious about the far side of the moon, but what of the far side of the hedge?

Painted portrait of a small girl in a white dress and red shoes. She holds a pink flower, and a yellow butterfly hovers over a bush beside her.

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Portrait of a girl in a white dress with a rose and a butterfly among foliage

Red poster with white title «Duellistes» and black silhouettes of two duellists with sabres. Credits at left list Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel and director Ridley Scott.

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French poster for Ridley Scott's The Duellists with silhouetted fencers

NB! · Coming Up · Aristocracy · Monarchies · Moscow · Observations

Happy, cheerful, playful: the Duke and Duchess of Windsor set us all a fine example that life should be taken more lightly, and all the more so as Slava Polunin's show is about to return to Moscow

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Dear diary, today is day 55 of my diet

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"This Pendant Is Not Eligible for the Discount" - CHECK AGAIN, PLEASE!!!

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Who would have thought it: the beauty Milla Jovovich is 46 today!

Who would have thought it: the beauty Milla Jovovich is 46 today! And yet she remains the exact contemporary of her Leeloo and her Joan of Arc

Pope Francis in white vestments stands among a group of young people and two women in a room with golden walls and a carpet.

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Pope Francis brings ten migrants from Cyprus to Italy for his 85th birthday

For his 85th birthday Pope Francis gave Italy 10 migrants, whom he brought over from Cyprus yesterday. That is to say, he has given a great many more migrants than that, thousands of them, but a round ten is reserved for this particular day

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Incidentally, if you fancy it, you can telephone Proust

Incidentally, if you fancy it, you can telephone Proust. Though he is almost never at home

A dark double-breasted coat with a fur collar on a stand, a cane beside it and a metal bed frame at right, in a museum interior.

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Marcel Proust's coat shown at the Carnavalet Museum in Paris for the writer's 150th anniversary

Marcel Proust's fur-collared overcoat. It can be seen at the exhibition marking the writer's 150th anniversary at the Musée Carnavalet in Paris

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And So It Goes, Every Day

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