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No Date Yet for Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner's Visit to Russia
But there is one for Kanye West
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The life and career of Irina Bugrimova, the first woman lion tamer in the USSR
The lion tamer Irina Bugrimova with a lion in the early 1960s. Photograph by Semyon Mishin-Morgenstern. Irina Bugrimova was the first woman lion tamer in the USSR and a People's Artist of the Soviet Union. She was born on 13 March 1910 in Kharkiv, into the family
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Found an Alla Pugacheva Easter egg in a 1990s edition of "Crocodile Gena and His Friends"
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Dalida and Alain Delon outside the singer's house in Montmartre, 1972
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The Beatles’ spontaneous photo shoot of 28 July 1968, remembered as Mad Day Out
On 28 July 1968 the Beatles, instead of working in the studio, staged a spontaneous shoot at various places around the city, with no script, no route and hardly any preparation. The aim was to recover from the gruelling recording of their ninth album and at last to document new
Aristocracy · Observations · Education · Pop Culture
West Heath Girls School and the Scottish Ancestry of Tilda Swinton
Just learned that Tilda Swinton and Diana Spencer were in the same class at West Heath Girls School, a boarding school near Sevenoaks in Kent. Tilda Swinton remembered boarding school as a very lonely place. West Heath Girls School was a prestigious, though not first-rank, private school for girls.
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A missed concert with an elderly woman at the microphone and a ride on the metro this week
Missed the concert at which an elderly lady stood and shouted into a microphone. On the other hand, I have already been on the Tube this week
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Artist Ray Simon of Ohio releases the print “Forged in Freedom” for the US 250th anniversary
In the small hours of Monday, Donald Trump posted an image of a very strange painting, captioned "Great painting!!" and without the artist's name. The canvas heaps together George Washington, the raising of the flag on Iwo Jima, an astronaut on the Moon, the Statue of
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Helen of Troy in Nolan's Film, Once White People Appear in Shot
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Fendi to show Maria Grazia Chiuri's couture at Rome's GNAM gallery on 9 July
On 9 July Fendi will show its first couture collection by Maria Grazia Chiuri, who moved from Dior last October. The venue is not Paris but Rome's National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, the GNAM. The gallery building itself is a former seventeenth-century monastery of the
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Pope Robert Prevost plays tennis weekly, and Jannik Sinner visited him at the Vatican
Pope Leo XIV makes time for tennis every week and explains it by the Augustinian tradition of caring for body and spirit: the Rule of Saint Augustine values good habits. Robert Prevost, while still a cardinal, admitted that he considered himself "quite the amateur" on the court, and
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Candace Owens at the Studio of “Parsuna” with Vladimir Legoyda, Broadcast Awaited
Well, that's a turn-up! Candace Owens in the studio of "Parsuna" with Vladimir Legoyda. The mission "from Twitter to the Paterikon" has officially begun. Congratulations to the team, and to Vladimir Romanovich personally! We await the broadcast, we are preparing our dogmatic remarks,