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Edmund Waldstein, son of theologians, and the story of the kiss from Pope John Paul II
There is a popular story about a child who grew up to become a Catholic priest after being kissed by Pope John Paul II. It is usually shared as a headline and a photograph in which the Pope brings his lips to the head of an infant. One would not
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Giuseppe Volpi, founder of the Venice Festival, and the Grand Council of Fascism
The Venice Film Festival was born under Mussolini's warm wing. Its founder, the rather successful Italian politician Giuseppe Volpi, sat on the Grand Council of Fascism until 1943. True, when he spoke out against the alliance with Hitler, he was not merely driven out of every post but
NB! · Art · People · Nature
The Exquisite Clouds of the German Artist Otto Modersohn, 1892
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Nina Khrushchev and Jacqueline Kennedy
Nina Khrushchev and Jacqueline Kennedy. These photographs are often captioned with ironic remarks comparing the two First Ladies, of the USSR and the USA, as if to set Nina Khrushchev in a less flattering light. Well, then. It may be agreed that the wife of the Soviet General Secretary dressed
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The American traveller, explorer and photographer Harriet Chalmers Adams in the Gobi Desert
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Marie Antoinette was executed on 16 October 1793 at the age of 37
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Funeral at sea of Lady Edwina Mountbatten off Portsmouth on 25 February 1960
When the Queen Mother, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, was told that Lady Edwina Mountbatten, the aunt of Prince Philip, would be buried at sea, the Queen Mother replied cheerfully: “Dear old Edwina, she always did love to make a splash!”. That the last Vicereine of India, Lady Mountbatten, had willed to
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The mass-produced portrait of Princess Victoria, the future Queen Victoria, aged 4, even bears a facsimile of the princess's childish signature, VICTORIA
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The legendary series of photographs in which the Queen Mother sips a beer became the source of the cover image for a new biography by the Northern Irish writer Gareth Russell, Do Let’s Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of…
The legendary series of photographs in which the Queen Mother sips a beer became the source of the cover image for a new biography by the Northern Irish writer Gareth Russell, Do Let’s Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. The
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The need for certainty has always been stronger than the need for truth
The French anthropologist Gustave Le Bon
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I understand that after decades of listening to tracks of no more than two or three minutes, Grand Music may be very hard to take in
I understand that after decades of listening to tracks of no more than two or three minutes, Grand Music may be very hard to take in. But in honour of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Ralph Vaughan Williams, one of the outstanding composers of the twentieth century, who