This is what the line of succession to the English crown looks like now

I have one question about this list: does it really mean that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have named their children ARCHIE and LILIBET?

All this time I had assumed these were diminutives of some Arnold-Joseph and Elizabeth-Maria-Remarque. But Archie and Lilibet, for people who will, in principle, not remain infants all their lives, and who are somehow connected with the legacy of a royal house... It is almost like naming a son Fluffy and a daughter, say, Tiny!

It is, of course, most sad that a medical examination as to sanity is carried out when a will is drawn up, but not when a birth certificate is filled in

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

This is what the line of succession to the English crown looks like now

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s