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Maya Plisetskaya 🖤
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David Lynch and Isabella Rossellini, Photographed by Helmut Newton, 1988
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The Russian variety singer Anastasia Vyaltseva in a dress with birds, and an Alexander McQueen jacket with the same swallows, from the 1995 collection
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How Salvador Dalí Sold Yoko Ono a Blade of Grass for $10,000
Some episodes from the life of Salvador Dalí, for all their plausibility, may seem entirely apocryphal: a kind of definition of Surrealism itself. Yoko Ono and Salvador Dalí first met in 1969, when Ono and John Lennon were travelling around Europe on their honeymoon. The newlyweds met Dalí in Paris,
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Charlotte Brontë's Wedding Bonnet
Charlotte Brontë's wedding bonnet. 170 years on, still at the height of fashion
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The First Miss America: the American Model Margaret Gorman
The first Miss America was the American model Margaret Gorman. She was born on 18 August 1905. In 1921 she was crowned "Miss District of Columbia". The pageant, later known as "Miss America", was originally called the "Inter-City Beauty" contest.
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The Squirrel from "Ice Age" Turns Up in Svetlana Zharnikova's Interview
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The Melodiya Company, the country's oldest sound industry firm, will open a vinyl record plant
The Melodiya Company, the country's oldest sound industry firm, will open a vinyl record plant. The plant will be launched in Novosibirsk in spring 2025, producing 100,000 records a year, both from Melodiya's catalogue and to order
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A Night at the Museum
A night at the museum. Starring Adam Sandler.
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Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings, whose fortune is estimated at $4.7 billion, is to open an art gallery right on a ski slope, at the 3,433-hectare Powder Mountain resort in Eden, Utah, which he recently acquired
It is planned that the pictures may be viewed without taking off one's skis, quite literally in the midst of a slalom. This would make it the world's first art museum on skis, and the 30 seconds that the average visitor is said to devote to
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The Whole Crew of "The Sicilian Clan" on Board One Aeroplane: Henri Verneuil, Jean Gabin, Alain Delon and Lino Ventura
The whole crew of "The Sicilian Clan" on board one aeroplane: Henri Verneuil, Jean Gabin, Alain Delon and Lino Ventura. A stunning cast for a legendary film. A breed of men that has almost been taken out of production.