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James Leslie Starkey is known to everyone who has had anything to do with biblical archaeology, and to almost no one outside it. In 1935 he found the "Lachish Letters", potsherds bearing the correspondence of a Judaean garrison on the eve of the Babylonian assault of 588 BC,
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Everyone remembers that Coco Chanel was a collaborator and worked for the Abwehr, that is, for German military intelligence? This is not conjecture or gossip but a well-documented part of her biography. So, she not only tried, with the help of her fascist patrons, to wrest a perfume company
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On the road I read an essay about Jerry Gorovoy, the American who worked as Louise Bourgeois's assistant for almost thirty years. The author describes him as a man who protected the artist and tirelessly promoted her work. Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911, moved to
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Pope Leo XIV votes by post in the US midterm elections Americans hold midterm elections halfway through the four-year presidential term. They elect the entire House of Representatives, a third of the Senate, and also the governors and legislators of many states. Leo XIV, otherwise Robert Francis Prevost, holds
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A 64-year-old professor of photography at Oberlin College and his 56-year-old wife have been shot dead in Ohio. According to documents of the Oberlin Municipal Court, the investigation has charged the photographer's 31-year-old child from a previous marriage, Asia Nguyen-duy (born
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An offering chapel belonging to Ikhetnefer, wife of the high priest Sabu, has been discovered at Saqqara. Saqqara is the necropolis of the ancient Egyptian capital Memphis, situated some 30 kilometres south of modern Cairo. The chapel is about 4,000 years old. An offering chapel was the place where
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Catherine Deneuve in October 1967, during the shooting of the film "Manon 70" directed by Jean Aurel
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The Nathalie Karg Gallery in New York is showing rare black-and-white paintings by Friedel Dzubas in the exhibition "Friedel Dzubas: From Darkness to Light". Dzubas became famous as a master of colour field painting. He was born in Berlin in 1915 to a Catholic mother and
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The American writer Shen has written an essay about her great-great-great-grandfather Duanfang, a prominent Manchu dignitary of the Qing dynasty who founded a university, travelled to America, spoke out against foot-binding and collected ancient Chinese bronzes; his collection was considered one of the finest in China.
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Patriarch Kirill has blessed the recognition of the remains discovered at the Krestitelskoye Cemetery in Oryol as the holy relics of Athanasius of Oryol. The Church canonised Athanasius on 14 May 2026 as a holy fool and confessor. Athanasius was born in 1887 in the village of Danichevo in the
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Yves Saint Laurent as a child
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Disturbances in Paris, literally at Les Invalides, the tomb of Napoleon. I think it would have taken him less than an hour to remove the cause of the noise, were it not for the 35-tonne sarcophagus of crimson Shoksha quartzite, brought from Russia by order of Nicholas I