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Not that I am hinting at anything, but no one has ever seen Napoleon (the unfinished portrait of the Emperor by Jacques-Louis David) and Captain Harlock in the same room

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Royal Air Force brooch received by the Duchess of Cambridge in 2015

I noticed the RAF brooch that Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge wears with her blue outfits. Unlike many of her other jewels, which came to her from the Queen's collection, this one is a gift from the Royal Air Force, the RAF, and not from Raf Simons)) In 2015

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Vasily Lanovoy in June 2018

Vasily Lanovoy in June 2018. He was speaking about the destruction of the Vakhtangov Theatre during the bombing in the summer of 1941. Lanovoy turned 87 this year. Today Irina Kupchenko announced the death of her husband: Vasily Semyonovich has passed away

Black and white engraving of a woman reclining with a pipe in a glass-sided hearse drawn by a horse, with the driver on the box.

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An 1871 engraving shows a Quebec woman riding in a hearse along St. John Street with a pipe

A woman from Quebec caused a sensation by driving down Saint John Street in a hearse, reclining where the coffin should be and smoking a pipe». Greetings to Ksenia Sobchak from 1871

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20 January is the birthday of David Lynch (1946) and Federico Fellini (1920-1993)

20 January is the birthday of David Lynch (1946) and Federico Fellini (1920-1993). In the photograph with the two celebrants is the beautiful Isabella Rossellini

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Can it be that the Duchess of Cornwall photographs books for her blog against a box of Matchesfashion? I do the same when I don't want my house to be the backdrop

Black-and-white photograph of a woman with pinned-up light hair, wearing a dark jacket and white shirt, aiming a pistol.

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Renata Litvinova's birthday and the universal admiration for her

Renata Litvinova is a person whom everyone adores, and not only on her birthday. Understandably so: Renata strikes straight to the heart, even when she is firing at the ceiling. The main thing is that the bullets never run out

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Old Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, has opened a book club on Instagram

Old Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, has opened a book club on Instagram. The page already has more than 25,000 followers. The Reading Room of Her Royal Highness, consort of Prince Charles, will be a place for book recommendations to Camilla's taste, talk of literature, meetings with authors

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Italian press quotes Rowan Atkinson on political correctness and the Middle Ages

Today the Italian press is chewing over Rowan Atkinson's remark that he is "tired of political correctness, it is like living in the Middle Ages". The Italians are quoting an interview given in honour of the actor's 66th birthday, in which he spoke, among

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Margrethe II's Van Cleef & Arpels engagement ring compared with that of Elizabeth II

Perhaps my favourite, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, has the weightiest engagement ring of any European queen of the twentieth century. Similar to the engagement ring of Josephine and of Jacqueline Kennedy in the toi et moi style (“you and me”, French), Margrethe’s ring from the house of Van

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Ideas for New Year hairstyles: my gift to you

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