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Furniture by the French architect and designer Pierre Chareau, 1920s and 1930s. Today the pieces of furniture and decor created by Chareau sell for tens of thousands of euros. Even the most modest of them, a small paper holder, went at auction in 2021 for 8 thousand. The gallery shows
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Medieval legends attribute to Alexander the Great a passion for exploring the natural world, notably in a glass submarine in which he sat with a cockerel, a cat and a dog. In this miniature from a fifteenth-century French book, "The True History of the Good King", an
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What vexed me most was that it was not we who kissed but the doves, and that the days of Paolo and Francesca are past. 6 February 1908, Alexander Blok, "She came in from the frost, flushed..."
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Marshal Joachim Murat with his mother. The King of Naples was the youngest of twelve children in the family of a prosperous innkeeper who managed Talleyrand's estates. He himself had four children by Napoleon's sister Caroline
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"My painting does not depict an event, it is an event" - Yevgeny Mikhnov-Voitenko. The exhibition "Zverev/Mikhnov-Voitenko. A Second Multiplied by Eternity" at the AZ Museum. When you come to the exhibition, be sure to watch the film about the artist on the 3rd
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It turns out that Théoden of Rohan also found time to captain the Titanic. The question "where was Gondor when we needed help?" acquires a new ring
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Italy is bidding farewell to the only son of Umberto II, the last Italian monarch. Victor Emmanuel, Prince of Naples, of the House of Savoy, was born in 1937, still in the reign of his grandfather Victor Emmanuel III. He died on 3 February 2024. After the abolition of the
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Those who enjoy studying languages will surely have come across the term Sprachbund, especially if they have ever set about the Balkan tongues. Sprachbund, or linguistic union, describes similarities that arise not from the genetic kinship of languages but from close linguistic and cultural contact. Different languages with no shared
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Elizaveta Petrovna, as is well known, though a daughter of Peter the Great, was born out of wedlock, like her elder sisters Ekaterina Petrovna and Anna Petrovna: all of them were born to Catherine before the wedding in 1712 and were considered "legitimated by marriage". Elizaveta had no
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A Secret History. Margaret Thatcher, aged 57, Prime Minister of Great Britain, pirate, witch and murderess. Guilty! Margaret Thatcher as a pirate in the Argentine press after Britain's invasion of the Malvinas, or Falkland Islands, in 1982. The islands remain a disputed territory: Argentina regards them as occupied