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In essence, Prince Charles is one of the last bastions of English style
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Mads Mikkelsen at Secondary School
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Zinaida Serebriakova: Just Don't Copy It Out Word for Word
Yves Breyer: fine by me
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Yet Another Cringeworthy Work by Maurizio Cattelan, Entitled La Nona Ora, Shows Pope John Paul II Felled by a Meteorite
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Jorge Luis Borges in Sicily, 1985
Art · Museums · Paris · People
A lone boy and his mocking peers in uniform in an autumn school courtyard
At Malmaison, Napoleon's best-known residence, now a museum of the Napoleonic era, a recently acquired painting of the young Bonaparte at Brienne has been hung. What a familiar opening. A lone figure among mocking enemies, rejected by all and accepted by none. What happens next in such
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Patriarch Kirill Awards Emir Kusturica the Order of St Seraphim of Sarov, First Class
Patriarch Kirill has awarded Emir Kusturica the Order of St Seraphim of Sarov, First Class. The award was timed to coincide with the director's 70th birthday. The congratulatory address states that the order was conferred on the filmmaker for his contribution to the preservation of traditional values
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J. R. R. Tolkien with his three-year-old son Christopher in a photograph from 1928
Professor J. R. R. Tolkien and his three-year-old son Christopher, 1928
The East · Observations · Heritage · People · Nature
A friend on Insta posted a photo of the memorial stele to Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé in the Majorelle Garden, not far from their villa Oasis in Marrakech, and I noticed the plaque: I remember it used to say simply "In memoriam Yves Saint Laurent"
A friend on Insta posted a photo of the memorial stele to Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé in the Majorelle Garden, not far from their villa Oasis in Marrakech, and I noticed the plaque: I remember it used to say simply "In memoriam Yves Saint Laurent", at
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"Nine-tenths of writers will die off, nobody will remember them, such is their specific (weight)
"Nine-tenths of writers will die off, nobody will remember them, such is their specific (weight). Whereas I shall shine through the ages. You have seen to it that Gorky wants for nothing, and Tolstoy receives 36,000 roubles a month. Why am I not provided for in the
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F. Setone's 1734 engraving with a portrait of Empress Anna Ioannovna
Portrait of the second Russian Empress, niece of Peter I and daughter of Ivan V, Anna Ioannovna, engraving by F. Setone. 1734