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The Funeral of Prince Philip on 17 April 2021 in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
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Some hold that genius is passed down by inheritance, while others have no children
Marcel Achard
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Today Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI Would Have Celebrated His 95th Birthday
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The Blue Room, 1923
The Blue Room, 1923. Suzanne Valadon. Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938) was the first woman admitted to the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. She fed her cats caviar, kept a goat in her studio, ate her failed paintings, and married a friend of her son.
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On the morning of 15 April 1865, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, died at the age of 56; the previous evening he had been mortally wounded by a gunshot at Ford's Theatre in Washington
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The Route of Tsarevich Nicholas through Europe, Asia and Africa in 1890–1891 on a Map
The route of Tsesarevich Nicholas on his journey to the East in 1890-1891, through Europe, Asia and Africa, covering 51,000 versts. During this journey the heir laid the foundation for work on the construction of the Siberian railway
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There is no personal sacrifice I would not be ready to make in the interests of France: on 12 April 1814 Napoleon signed the Treaty of Fontainebleau, renouncing the throne for himself and his children and departing into exile on the island of Elba
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In the second round of the 1974 French presidential election, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and François Mitterrand were separated by 424,599 votes, or a little over 1%
In the second round of the 1974 French presidential election, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and François Mitterrand were separated by 424,599 votes, or a little over 1%. The twentieth President of the French Republic was Giscard d'Estaing, but the twenty-first was, after all, François Mitterrand,
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Elizabeth II with her father, husband, son, sister and mother
Elizabeth II with her father, husband, son, sister and mother. In the course of her long life she bade farewell to everyone present in this photograph, Charles excepted
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It has emerged that Mimi Reinhardt has died at the age of 107; during the war she was secretary to the industrialist Schindler and compiled those very lists of Jewish workers from the ghetto of the Polish city of Kraków that helped save hundreds of Jews…
It has emerged that Mimi Reinhardt has died at the age of 107; during the war she was secretary to the industrialist Schindler and compiled those very lists of Jewish workers from the ghetto of the Polish city of Kraków that helped save hundreds of Jews from deportation to the
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Belgian artist James Ensor and the skeletons in his paintings
Skeletons fighting over a smoked herring and over a hanged man, skeletons admiring chinoiserie, skeletons warming themselves, and skeletons painting pictures. Meet the Belgian artist James Ensor (1860-1949)