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Sir Ian McKellen has said that he knows his life is drawing to a close, and is still waiting for a call from the showrunners offering him Gandalf in the series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

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Alexander Herzen's letter to Alexander II requesting freedom, land and speech for Russians

Letter from Alexander Herzen to Alexander II, an Emperor Who Did Not Have to Cross a Square Drenched in Blood to Mount the Throne. Simple, clear and kind words. A cherished appeal. The request of a free Russian to grant the Russian people freedom, land and the spoken word. Much

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Study for the Portrait of Arthur Atherley, Nineteen-Year-Old Student of Eton College, by Thomas Lawrence

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King Harald V of Norway finishes tenth at the sailing world championship aged 85

The 85-year-old King Harald V of Norway takes part in the World Sailing Championship as skipper of the yacht Sira, with a crew of six. After a week's racing, the crew finished in tenth place. Harald V has a European Championship gold and five World Cup

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Tatler publishes photographs of Princess Diana from her last summer holiday aboard the 64-metre yacht Jonikal, built at the Italian yard Codecasa in 1990 and owned by the Egyptian billionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed

Tatler has published photographs of Princess Diana from her last summer holiday aboard the 64-metre yacht Jonikal, built at the Italian yard Codecasa in 1990 and owned by the Egyptian billionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed. On board this luxurious vessel Diana was spotted in the Mediterranean in 1997 with the

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The Aeroplane

The Aeroplane. Viktor Vasnetsov

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Today, at 25/9 Tverskaya Street in Moscow

Today, at 25/9 Tverskaya Street in Moscow, the Museum-Apartment of the People's Artist of the USSR Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya opened its doors. The apartment in which Plisetskaya lived was donated to the Bakhrushin Theatre Museum by the ballerina's widower, the composer Rodion Shchedrin. Together

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Maya Plisetskaya's Balenciaga

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Coco Chanel's apartment keeps its interiors from the day she died and is closed to the public

Today Coco Chanel's apartment is closed to visitors, save for the most important guests of the House. Its furnishings have remained unchanged since the day Coco died. There is a video showing the interiors of the famous apartment

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Coco Chanel's apartment at 31 rue Cambon, where she received guests but never slept

Coco Chanel in her apartment at 31 Rue Cambon, in an eighteenth-century building, in the 1950s and 1960s. Coco's apartment was on the second floor of the building that became the residence of her brand. The shows were held on the ground floor, the showroom lay above,

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The legend of Lermontov learning English from Byron and his tutor Vinson

There is a legend that Mikhail Lermontov began learning English by reading Byron's poetry in the original. And within a few months the fifteen-year-old Mikhail Yuryevich was supposedly a fine master of English, or at least understood it remarkably well. Like all legends, this tale sounds

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Before his week-long pilgrimage to Canada, Pope Francis prayed in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore before the especially venerated icon of the Mother of God, "Salus Populi Romani" ("Protectress of the Roman People"), in which the Virgin Mary is depict

Before his week-long pilgrimage to Canada, Pope Francis prayed in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore before the especially venerated icon of the Mother of God, "Salus Populi Romani" ("Protectress of the Roman People"), in which the Virgin Mary is depicted wearing a consular ring,