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Paris Match managed to prepare, in time for the betrothal, a lengthy interview with the "tsarevich", Grand Duke George Mikhailovich, and Rebecca, christened in July 2020 as Victoria Romanovna, Bettarini

Paris Match managed to prepare, in time for the betrothal, a lengthy interview with the "tsarevich", Grand Duke George Mikhailovich, and Rebecca, christened in July 2020 as Victoria Romanovna, Bettarini. We await the print version

NB! · Archaeology · Humour

When They Suggested Waiting Just a Little Longer After 3,700 Years of Waiting

Marble relief of a seated woman with two children, with a seated man in a face mask and mittens added on the right by photomontage.

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Montage with Bernie in mittens on a relief of the Altar of Peace

Let us hope it is no accident that Bernie fits so well into the Ara Pacis. To all 🧑🏼‍🎄💋

NB! · Cinema · Pop Culture

20 January is the birthday of David Lynch (1946) and Federico Fellini (1920-1993)

20 January is the birthday of David Lynch (1946) and Federico Fellini (1920-1993). In the photograph with the two celebrants is the beautiful Isabella Rossellini

Black-and-white view from above of a long line of people standing along the edge of a highway, with older cars parked on the shoulder beside them.

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A line of people along a highway with cars parked on the roadside

Still life with a metal dish of rolled wafers, a glass of wine and a wicker-covered flask on a blue tablecloth against a dark background.

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Still Life “Wafer Rolls” by Lubin Baugin, Painted in 1635

Wafer rolls. Still life. 1635, by the French painter Lubin Baugin. With boiled condensed milk, I trust.

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Alexey Kondakov Is ❤️

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Design for a cavalry standard from the time of the English Civil War, depicting the Catholic Church as a many-headed monster

Design for a cavalry standard from the time of the English Civil War, depicting the Catholic Church as a many-headed monster. This Gorynych wears a papal tiara on one head, a scarlet cardinal's galero on another, the black birettas of the common clergy on the rest and,

Two-panel meme: a man in a car eyes a passenger in a pink feathered costume and big glasses; below, a headless horseman in blue mist. Captions: Louis XIII, XIV, XVI

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Meme about French kings: Louis XIII, XIV and XVI

A wide snow-covered stone staircase and a gilded iron fence with stone urns on its pillars at Versailles in winter.

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Staircase of the Hundred Steps above the Versailles orangeries under snow

Versailles in winter. The Staircase of a Hundred Steps above the orangeries

Page of a handwritten register with an illegible entry and the line John Russell, Monzie.

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Illegible handwriting of a visitor to Innerpeffray Library in 1878

When some self-important reception-desk outfit presses too insistently for my passport details, I deliberately write in the same hand as this charming visitor to the Innerpeffray Library in 1878. Kindred spirits find one another even across the centuries

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Can it be that the Duchess of Cornwall photographs books for her blog against a box of Matchesfashion? I do the same when I don't want my house to be the backdrop