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Labrador Baltic accompanied Mitterrand for years and appears in his bronze monument
When, in 1993, François Mitterrand was asked about his successor at the Élysée Palace, he replied that, in order of preference, he would like to see in that role: the President of the European Commission Jacques Delors, the Minister of Defence François Lé. The black Labrador Baltic was for many
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Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, aged 82, celebrated fifty years on the throne by riding the roller coaster at Copenhagen's Tivoli Gardens
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Katharine, Duchess of Kent, aged 89, in New Balance trainers at the gala evening of Future Talent, the competition for young musicians she founded 16 years ago
The Duchess looks mar-vel-lous!
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Raphael RIP 🕯🥀
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Prince Carl Philip of Sweden has been racing in the Porsche Carrera Cup series since 2008
Faith · The East · People · Rome
Mehmet Ali Agca's 1981 assassination attempt on John Paul II in Saint Peter's Square
On 13 May 1981, as the Pope's motorcade moved across St Peter's Square and John Paul II greeted the pilgrims, six shots rang out. A Turkish extremist standing in one of the front rows wounded the Pope in the abdomen and the hand: by a miracle,
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Patriarch Neofit of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church hospitalised with a fractured hip
Bishop of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church Patriarch Neofit has been admitted to hospital with a broken left hip. For a man of 76, Neofit's health is not of the best: he was hospitalised for a week last year and for a month in 2018, and in 2011 he
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Charles Has Never Been So Close to the Crown
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Dysentery of Saint Louis on crusade in Jean de Joinville's book of 1309
In the prologue to Jean de Joinville's book of 1309 on the life of the French king Louis the Saint, four occasions are listed on which he showed knightly valour, risking his life for others. One of the four perils that met the king on his path through
NB! · Moscow · Society · People
It has emerged that, as of today, the 70-year-old Rimas Tuminas has left the post of artistic director of the Vakhtangov Theatre, which he had headed since 2007
It has emerged that, as of today, the 70-year-old Rimas Tuminas has left the post of artistic director of the Vakhtangov Theatre, which he had headed since 2007. Tuminas was, without exaggeration, one of the finest directors in Moscow
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