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Lady Gaga Has Died
Lady Gaga has died. At least, so we must believe if we trust a letter reporting on a Lady Gaga who lived in ancient Babylon
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I don't see anything funny here, by the way: the lady might have stood up for the birds that had taken up residence in her wig
I don't see anything funny here, by the way: the lady might have stood up for the birds that had taken up residence in her wig. A pity that in 1775 mercy was not in fashion to the same degree as extravagant coiffures. Still, the aristocrats of the
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The French freak-singer Philippe Katerine as a drunken Silenus, or perhaps the embodiment of the allegory of alchemical mercury, which refers to Mercury and personifies both the passage from the higher to the lower and androgyny?
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Has anyone worked out whether those African women on the bridge at the Olympic opening ceremony are an allusion to gargoyles, or just a number in the wailing-Kevin style?
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Julia Roberts during the filming of "Wild Horses of Mongolia" in 1999
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Ladies' Trifles, 1834
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Sophia Loren and her younger sister Maria Scicolone, actress and singer
Sophia Loren and her younger sister Maria Scicolone, actress and singer. Sophia is now 89 years old, Maria 86
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A Lego Set for Bastille Day
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A Cameo by Saint Thérèse of Lisieux in the 2002 "Spider-Man"
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Van Cleef & Arpels released the men's fragrance Eau du Tsar with Russian motifs in 1998
In 1998 Van Cleef & Arpels launched a men's fragrance, Eau du Tsar, that is, "the Tsar's Water". The design of the bottle and its case drew on Russian motifs, from a coat of arms in the Muscovite style to Cyrillic lettering. Amusingly, the
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His Highness Is No Virtuoso, but One Might Say the Prince Is One Letter Away from a Legendary Guitarist
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