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Georges Clemenceau's Toothbrush Kept Its Secrets for a Century

French museum curators never cease to astonish. This time with their scholarly labours. Having examined the toothbrush of the Prime Minister of France in 1906 to 1909 and again in 1917 to 1920, researchers have managed to reconstruct his microbiome. The brush is kept in the Clemenceau Museum, where it

Faith · Cinema · People

Stills from the 1922 film Salomé

Stills from the 1922 film Salomé. The film, based on the play by Oscar Wilde, was directed by Charles Bryant, and today it is regarded as one of the boldest and most radical works of the early cinema. The title role was played by Alla Nazimova, one of the most

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The British painter Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797) is known as a master of genre scenes from the realm of science and natural knowledge that look as though they were sacred subjects

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British architect Sarah Wigglesworth shows what the Christmas atmosphere looks like from an architectural point of view

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I had never before met such an original definition

Coco Chanel was dubbed a "horizontal collaborator" from the Ritz, a hint at her long liaison with Baron Hans Günther von Dincklage, a German lawyer and NSDAP official who was also, in his spare time, a secret agent and special representative attached to the Reich Ministry of Propaganda.

London · Society · People

In 1777, a year after America declared its independence from Great Britain, the Anglo-Irish statesman Edmund Burke wrote to his friend and ally, the prominent opponent of the king Charles James Fox, something along these lines:

People oppressed by the law have no hope but to rely on power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies of the laws; and those who have much to hope for and nothing to lose will always be dangerous Both Burke and Fox are known above all

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Charlemagne, King of the Franks and Emperor of the Romans, drawing by Pierre Joubert

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The President of France complained in his book that he had to press the buttons on a telephone himself

It seems that Nicolas Sarkozy is a Zoomer. In his now much-discussed book, the former President of France writes some quite astonishing things. For instance, that to make a telephone call he had to "dial no fewer than ten digits, each of which is a code required to

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The Russo-Italian artist Paolo Troubetzkoy, Pavel Petrovich, not only created touching sculptures of animals, but was also a committed vegetarian

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Tolerance cannot afford to have anything in common with the mistaken notion that evil may be turned into good

The British writer Dame Freya Stark (1893-1993)

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"Comrade Stalin, what did you and Churchill agree on?" "He asked whether I could hear him well."

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What, in essence, are we looking at?

What, in essence, are we looking at? Nicholas II, in signing his abdication, acted under the influence of swindlers and did not grasp the consequences of his actions