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Why the ring straight away?
Why the ring straight away? Better we destroy Pendalf's gizmos
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Loretta Young confirmed that her daughter Judy was fathered by Clark Gable
Most likely, Loretta Young gave birth shortly before filming began on The Crusades. The story of her daughter became one of the more mysterious biographies among the children of Hollywood celebrities, and came to light only shortly before Loretta's death in 2000 at the age of 87. In
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Dolls, English Style: Notable Tories in the Guise of Gentlemen of Yesterday, 1970
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“The Beatles and the Rolling Stones and many others who took up the baton of madness from Presley were very popular, hundreds of thousands were invested to keep their reputation from fading”
“The Beatles and the Rolling Stones and many others who took up the baton of madness from Presley were very popular, hundreds of thousands were invested to keep their reputation from fading. And yet none of them lasted long.” An amusing note in Sovetskaya kultura by Tatyana Kvardakova. Tatyana Vladimirovna
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The Legend of Marilyn Monroe Helping Ella Fitzgerald at the Mocambo Club and Its Critics
There is a much-repeated recollection of Ella Fitzgerald's: when she was not being invited to sing in clubs because she was black, Marilyn Monroe offered the manager of the prestigious Mocambo club to come and sit at a table right by the stage, reserved for all the
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The handsome Ivan Yankovsky backs the "I Want RGADA Remotely" campaign
The handsome Ivan Yankovsky backs the "I Want RGADA Remotely" campaign. Ah, Vanya, we all want things remotely just now, and not merely the State Archive of Early Acts. But it is a good and noble cause, and I support it wholeheartedly.
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Now would be just the moment to flee to Switzerland in a Rolls-Royce, with the boot full of gold bars and two million francs under the leather back seat, even if in old-issue notes, from before the 1960 redenomination, and most certainly with a distinguis
Now would be just the moment to flee to Switzerland in a Rolls-Royce, with the boot full of gold bars and two million francs under the leather back seat, even if in old-issue notes, from before the 1960 redenomination, and most certainly with a distinguished Louis Vuitton travel
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The New York Times publishes Bill Cunningham's photographs of New York Easter parades from 1997 to 2007
The NYTimes has recently published a selection of Bill Cunningham's photographs of New York's Easter parades, which ran in Sunday Styles from 1997 to 2007. A time to which one would truly like to return 🌧💖
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Reddit has produced a rather splendid and, oddly enough, fairly accurate map of France in the style of Super Mario
Reddit has produced a rather splendid and, oddly enough, fairly accurate map of France in the style of Super Mario. True, part of Lake Geneva has nonetheless been ceded to the Confederation
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Bear with a mechanism in the toy museum of the historic village of Penshurst in Kent
Just don't tell me this is not the most splendid bear you have ever seen. Paddington is not fit to hold a candle to him. This hard-drinking teddy lives in a toy museum in the English historic village of Penshurst, in the county of Kent, once owned
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A viewer's critical review of the Vernik brothers' programme on the Kultura channel
I sometimes watch the programme with the Vernik brothers on Kultura. And I cannot say that I have once been pleased with it. The gentlemen simply do not measure up: they fall short of the standard of a federal channel, at least as I conceive it. Even the two of
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Maria Callas and Winston Churchill in one photograph in a relaxed setting
A unique shot: Maria Callas, with Winston Churchill behind her. Who would have imagined the two of them in one place, and in such a relaxed setting at that