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Your picture of the world when you watch REN TV
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Modern ring with amethyst in an ancient style priced at 185 dollars
No, this is not an eleventh-century Viking wedding ring, but the work of modern jewellers. It costs $185
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Works by the French photographer Sacha Goldberger
She will ask whether you love the Renaissance or Star Wars more... and will leave without ever hearing your answer about the works of the French photographer Sacha Goldberger
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Anthropomorphic mud glyph from an Alabama cave dated to between 700 and 900 AD
An anthropomorphic figure with a radiating semicircle in place of a backside, from unnamed cave No. 19 in Alabama, signals insistently to the people of the 21st century, who likewise worship an idol of ample stern embodied in the figure of Kim Kardashian. Looking at this mud glyph, one might
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Heraldic Costumes as Proof of the Impotence of Modern Fashion
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After Death, the Witch-kings of Angmar End Up on Public Transport
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When you realise there is now nothing to spend your TsUM bonus points on
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American writer David Gerrold described multifunctional gadgets in 1999
One can say with confidence that the American writer and screenwriter David Gerrold's prediction about the development of technology has come true. As early as 1999, Gerrold wrote a column on the ubiquity, within a few years, of gadgets combining the functions of a telephone, a pocket organiser,
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Style is when a delighted Lyudmila Gurchenko poses beside her brand-new VAZ 2109 with a Chanel 2.55 handbag
Confess: what caught your eye first?
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Amelia Windsor writes for Tatler on the couture history of the House of Dior
On the English-language Tatler website a long piece on the couture history of the House of Dior has appeared, written by Amelia Windsor, granddaughter of the Duke of Kent. Amelia is not merely forty-second in line to the English throne: she combines modelling with editorial work at Tatler,
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