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What would the French do without Brigitte Macron's carbonara recipe? Probably what humanity has been doing without her views on the Indo-Pakistani conflict
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It follows that on 10 January 2023, with the death of Constantine II of Greece, Europe lost its last* Orthodox monarch
It follows that on 10 January 2023, with the death of Constantine II of Greece, Europe lost its last* Orthodox monarch. Constantine II reigned from 1964 to 1973, died in his 83rd year, and will be buried in Athens *Constantine was the last of Europe's reigning Orthodox monarchs.
Mores · People · Humour
Samuel Bentham began sleeping on the floor before his 1774 trip to Russia
Samuel Bentham, brother of the English thinker Jeremy Bentham, served in Russia under Prince Potemkin. When Samuel was invited to come to Russia in 1774, he began preparing for the journey well in advance and took to sleeping on the floor, supposing that in that distant, unknown country they had
Books · People · Humour
Dovlatov has a recollection of the remarkable Soviet translator Rita Rait-Kovaleva, who was the first to translate into Russian many classics of American, German and other literatures
I was once Vera Panova's secretary. One day Vera Fyodorovna asked: "Whose Russian, in your opinion, is the best?" I suppose I ought to have answered: yours. But I said: "Rita Kovaleva's." "Which Kovaleva?" "Rait." "The Faulkner
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Caspar David Friedrich's Wanderer above the Sea of Fog is every one of us, facing not only the new year but each new day
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Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI died today at 9:34 Rome time in the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican
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Marshal Berthier stayed awake for years with Napoleon and kept others from sleeping
Louis Alexandre Berthier, French Minister of War and Bonaparte's chief of staff, was obliged for many years to stay awake together with Napoleon, who slept three or four hours a night. In the end Berthier grew accustomed to this regime and even acquired the habit of not letting
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While a sixth of the earth's landmass chops its salads, in the first Rome they pray on bended knee for Pope Benedict XVI and keep the windows open, lest the tolling of bells announce the pontiff's death
On 28 December the Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni announced a rapid deterioration in the condition of the Pope Emeritus, owing to his venerable years, of course. Francis I, who visited Benedict on the morning of the 28th, asked for prayers for him in his hour of great weakness, beseeching God
Aristocracy · Monarchies · People · Pop Culture
One of Vivienne Westwood's most important collections, Harris Tweed, Autumn-Winter 1987/88, was inspired by images of the royal family, British motifs and historical details…
One of Vivienne Westwood's most important collections, Harris Tweed, Autumn-Winter 1987/88, was inspired by images of the royal family, British motifs and historical details, and featured traditional woollen fabrics, black velvet and elements of eighteenth-century corsetry. Ironic and mocking of the aristocratic way of life,
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Vivienne Westwood in an ermine cape and a fur-trimmed crown hat of her own design, in a shoot for Vogue, August 1987
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Today Gérard Depardieu Is 74
Today Gérard Depardieu is 74. This is how I remember him