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What Are You Like Today?

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Dolls, English Style: Notable Tories in the Guise of Gentlemen of Yesterday, 1970

Newspaper clipping headed “110, She Still Works in Fields”, an article about a 110-year-old Irishwoman who still works in the fields.

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Irish peasant woman Johanna O'Connor speaks of her longevity at 110

Mrs Johanna O'Connor, a peasant woman from a mountain hamlet in Ireland, at the age of 110: "I still smoke my pipe and do not think a person ought to be without a drop of punch, wine or stout... My secret of longevity? There is no secret,

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🇩🇰 Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary at the presentation of the Queen's portrait, marking her 80th birthday, at Frederiksborg Castle

🇩🇰 Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary at the presentation of the Queen's portrait, marking her 80th birthday, at Frederiksborg Castle. All in all, I still have but one question for this charming and modest queen, in every respect: who styles you, my

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The picture is, of course, about fashionable parasols in London in the 1790s, but the hats here are no less remarkable

The picture is, of course, about fashionable parasols in London in the 1790s, but the hats here are no less remarkable. I should like to self-isolate beneath an exceedingly wide-brimmed hat in the style of a galero

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Speaking of the history of destroyed monuments, one cannot fail to recall the colossal multi-figure composition in Prague, in which Stalin leads Czechoslovak and Soviet builders of a bright future, and which survived for only 7 years

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Studies in the History of Hygiene

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The Monarchess Arrives in Kyiv

The Monarchess has arrived in Kyiv. A note for all those whom feminine forms irritate: in fact they are an organic and perfectly fitting linguistic phenomenon with a long history. From the book "Life and Military Deeds of Generalissimo Prince Italiysky Count Suvorov-Rymniksky"

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Nature has been so cleansed during quarantine that the pigeons have returned to the Vendôme Column

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Quarantine Lifted

Quarantine lifted. Daniel Hopfer, 1500-1510

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Greetings to all my Mayanist acquaintances

Greetings to all my Mayanist acquaintances. And no greetings whatever to the Fomenkoites 🙃