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Only Napoleon Can Understand Mbappé's Feelings

Black and white group photograph of footballers in striped shirts, five seated in front and the others standing behind, with two men in suits beside them.

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Argentina's national football team white and sky blue kit in 1908 and the first match of 1902

Argentina's national team has worn its legendary white and sky-blue kit, in the colours of the national flag, since 1908, since the star-studded match with Brazil. The Argentines played their very first official match in a plain blue kit, against Uruguay in 1902

Black and white photograph of a woman in a long dress standing with her arms raised above her head beneath two caryatid statues of an ancient temple.

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Isadora Duncan at the Erechtheion Caryatid Porch on the Athenian Acropolis in 1920

Isadora Duncan and the female figures of the "Porch of the Caryatids" of the Erechtheion temple on the Athenian Acropolis. The photograph was taken in 1920, that is, two years before the wedding of the American dancer and Sergei Yesenin, to whom Duncan was married until 1924.

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English fans barred from Qatari stadium in full crusader regalia, but a good try

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Girls with two Cartier bracelets be like

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Among the performers: Valery Obodzinsky, Lev Leshchenko, Artur Eisen and Iosif Kobzon

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The English ballerina Margot Fonteyn (1919-1991) in an evening gown eighteen years her senior

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Stalin Makes Entries in the Death Note under the Supervision of the Shinigami Demon

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I adore the comments on my TikTok

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The English Bear Rupert and the Aristocratic Image of Stewie Griffin in Family Guy

Remember Rupert, Stewie Griffin's beloved teddy bear from the brilliant show Family Guy? In fact, the name Rupert was not chosen at random: the detail is meant to underline Stewie's aristocratic bearing and his special position within a plain American family. Rupert Bear is a famous

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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

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Angela Lansbury moved her family to Ireland after her daughter met Charles Manson

Angela Lansbury recalled how her daughter fell under the spell of a Hollywood layabout who collected the girl from school and made her steal money and food from her parents. Alarmed, Lansbury moved the whole family to Ireland. The young man was Charles Manson. A badass story. *Manson was an