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Elena, Queen of Poland and daughter of the Russian Tsar Ivan III, wrote to her father in 1503 asking him to send her black sable pelts, and by all means with the fore and hind paws and claws attached
Elena, Queen of Poland and daughter of the Russian Tsar Ivan III, wrote to her father in 1503 asking him to send her black sable pelts, and by all means with the fore and hind paws and claws attached. But by the custom of those years the hunters cut off
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Julian Barnes on Why He Has No Intention of Withdrawing His Books from Russia
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Academician Abich resigned from the Academy in 1865 over his work on the geological map of the Caucasus
On the Probity of Scholars. In November 1865 Academician Abich asked to be released from the Academy and renounced the title of full member, since at that time he was unable to attend the Academy's sessions and to bear the duties of a member of the conference on
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Maya Plisetskaya at the dacha
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Salman Rushdie as a Child in Bombay
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Please Do Not Feed the Sharks!
Not far from Dublin, a pensioner has put up a notice warning against the feeding of sharks beside a wheat field teeming with shark fins. Anne Melady, a 75-year-old nurse, admits that she borrowed the idea from a landowner acquaintance. What matters most to her is that those
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Lawrence's portrait of seven-year-old Charles Lambton and the suit changed from yellow to red
The Red Boy, or Portrait of Charles William Lambton, 1825, Thomas Lawrence. Charles William Lambton, heir to a barony and an ancient family castle, lived only 13 years; tuberculosis cut him down. In the portrait the boy is seven. A canvas by so celebrated an artist and academician cost a
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Aviator Ila Fox Loetscher began rescuing sea turtles in Texas after the age of fifty
The best years behind her, the joys of a beloved occupation in the past, the children grown, and a beloved husband suddenly dead: this is how the depressed heroines of television serials on Channel Two usually look. Such was also the shape of life after fifty for Ila Fox Loetscher
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Peggy Guggenheim in Venice
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Queen's silk mourning dress for her grandson Albert Victor, who died in 1892
Queen Victoria Stood Just 152 cm Tall. Look at this little black dress! The Queen wore this silk dress in mourning for her grandson Albert Victor, who died during the Russian flu pandemic in 1892. As the eldest son of Edward, Prince of Wales, Albert Victor was second in line
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The Syracusan moneylender Timon and the finances of the Delian sanctuary in the 2nd century BC
Met an interesting character. Timon of Syracuse lived on Delos in the 2nd century BC and was a moneylender. The very sacred island on which Apollo was born proved quite conducive to the growth of commerce and the financial sector. Among Timon's borrowers, we know, was the federation