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Napoleon's Height in English Caricature and in Data on the French of His Time
Napoleon thought highly of his own portrait by Jacques-Louis David, which commemorates his Alpine victory at the Battle of Marengo, and ordered three copies of the canvas. What could better serve to strengthen Bonaparte's reputation than the image of a dashing horseman, his hair streaming in the
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Valentin Gaft's poem addressed to Yuri Vizbor on contemporary pop music
Pop music rakes our souls with shrapnel, You cannot haul it into court for that. Part of a generation grew up on nonsense, And a new one is being born in delirium… Oh, “Forest Sun”, wondrous song! How we sang in captivity, we oddballs! Freedom came, and more interesting became
Science · People · Humour
After the Nobel Prize, Carlsberg gave Niels Bohr a house with a pipeline for beer
After 47-year-old Niels Bohr received the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms", the Carlsberg brewery offered him an unlimited supply of beer. And so that Bohr might avail himself of the offer more conveniently, Carlsberg presented him
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On his portrait of Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg as Saint Jerome, surrounded by animals, Lucas Cranach hung on the wall a Madonna and Child from his own brush
London · Monarchies · Mores · People
Ian Ball tried to kidnap Princess Anne in London, and her defenders received awards
On the evening of 20 March 1974, the limousine in which Princess Anne and her husband were driving to Buckingham Palace from a charity screening was attacked in an attempt to abduct the princess. The royal car's path was blocked by a white Ford Escort, from which a
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Lydia Chukovskaya records her meeting with Brodsky in Peredelkino on 18 May
“18 May, Thursday. Peredelkino. <...> He rose, saying something about the time. I got up too. We embraced. I kissed him on his prickly, unshaven cheek. “God keep you,” he said (I should be the one saying it to him!). We went quickly into the hall, and I opened
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The Calling of Mikhail Fyodorovich Romanov to the Throne
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Crown Prince of Yugoslavia and titular King of Serbia Alexander Karageorgevich to take part in filming a documentary series about his life, provisionally titled “The Crown, the State and the People”
The first scenes of the film were shot back in March, in London, at Claridge's Hotel, where the prince was born in 1945. By the time of the birth of Alexander Karageorgevich, the only son of Peter II, the last King of Yugoslavia, the British prime minister of
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Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich and the Russian riders leave the Olympics without medals
Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich (1891-1942), grandson of Alexander II and first cousin of Nicholas II, pictured far left, took part in the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm. Dmitry Pavlovich was a member of the Russian equestrian team, the sport having been added to the Olympic programme that year. The
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Juergen Teller’s 2016 photograph of a spiral metal slide on a building facade
The slide by which Miuccia Prada leaves her office. Photograph by Juergen Teller, 2016
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Academician Sakharov in his Nobel lecture on progress and intellectual freedom
Progress is possible and safe only under the control of Reason. Only in an atmosphere of intellectual freedom is an effective system of education and of creative continuity between generations possible. Academician A.D. Sakharov, Nobel Lecture