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Charlotte Despard, suffragist and anti-fascist, in Trafalgar Square in 1910 and 1933
The Anglo-Irish suffragist Charlotte Despard in Trafalgar Square in 1910 and in 1933. Across a gap of 23 years the woman lost none of her grip, her will to protest or her power to inspire a crowd. First she, a writer, pacifist, tax resister, philanthropist, socialist and vegetarian, stood
Education · People · Pop Culture
Shostakovich's First Symphony, a graduation work that brought the 19-year-old composer fame
Dmitri Shostakovich's First Symphony. It was first performed in May 1926, having been written as his graduation project. Its first performance was a sensation, and soon it was being played all over the country and abroad, in Berlin, Philadelphia and New York. Thus the 19-year-old composer
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Alla Demidova before the premiere of Lyubov Arkus’s film “Kto tebya pobedil nikto”
A little piece of Alla Demidova. Ahead of the premiere of Lyubov Arkus's film about Alla Sergeyevna, "Kto tebya pobedil nikto"
Observations · Society · People · Humour
The Execution of Prometheus
A frame destined for the history books. This is not photoshopped. Angela Merkel at the Marlow bird park during a visit to her former constituency of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, three days before the federal elections in Germany. Why former? Merkel has announced that she will no longer stand for the Bundestag,
In the Press · Interviews · Society · People · Nature
On the eve of her 87th birthday, Brigitte Bardot gave an interview to Parisien Magazine, speaking of her fight for animals, their lives and rights, of French presidents, and of the funerals of famous Frenchmen
First and foremost, Bardot spoke of the “barbarians, bastards, vile, rotten monsters” who inflict suffering on animals. She recalled, among other things, the shocking tragedy of the bloody slaughter of 1,428 cetaceans in a fjord in the Faroe Islands; on this occasion she wrote to the Prime Minister of
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Brigitte Bardot doubts the national honours for Belmondo and Josephine Baker
Brigitte Bardot Criticises the Memorial Policy of Macron, Whom She Detests. The actress looks sceptically on the funeral of her friend Belmondo: “Jean-Paul Belmondo would not have liked his funeral at Les Invalides.” He was “a charming man”, but “I do not understand the origins of the national reverence
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Claude Debussy, who died as the First World War drew to its close, has a maximally dull grave, and I cannot imagine how Manuel de Falla managed to dedicate music to this resting place, music of which, incidentally, I am not much enamoured either
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Map of Emperor Hadrian's Journeys Across the Provinces of the Roman Empire
Map of the travels of Emperor Hadrian through the towns and provinces of the Roman Empire. Hadrian did not begin his reign in Rome, and he went on to spend it in perpetual motion, setting off now for Germany, now for Britain, now for the East: he oversaw the building
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Wallis's meeting with the Queen Mother and her burial beside her husband at Frogmore
The Dowager Duchess of Windsor, a.k.a. Wallis Simpson, in England in May 1972, before the funeral of her husband, the former King Edward VIII. Wallis does not merely look lonely but frightened: she could hardly fail to dread a meeting with the Queen Mother, whom she had not
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Jacqueline Bisset: 77 today, a beauty she was and a beauty she remains
Jacqueline Bisset is 77 today, a beauty she was and a beauty she remains. Without fillers of any kind, or other such poultices.
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Pierre Richard, 87, remembers his friend Jean-Paul Belmondo, mourned across France
87-year-old Pierre Richard remembers his friend Jean-Paul Belmondo. He writes that all of France is in mourning. In fact, the whole world is in mourning