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Having breakfast at my beloved KM20 and delighting that a copy of unloved Prince Harry's book was a gift 🥰🥰 And wishing everyone a good morning 🌞 I set about reading at once, and so far these are not the worst memoirs I have come across

Not without oddities, though. On the very first page I opened there turned up an original passage in which Harry supposes that his DNA holds a rudimentary memory of the terrorist attack of 1979 in which Lord Mountbatten, his great-great-uncle, was killed

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

In the finale of the Strugatskys' Roadside Picnic, the Golden Ball is told: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to offend nobody, but the digest really does come free of charge. So, here is the main business of 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

Having breakfast at my beloved KM20 and delighting that a copy of unloved Prince Harry's book was a gift 🥰🥰 And wishing everyone a good morning 🌞 I set about reading at once, and so far these are not the worst memoirs I have come across

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

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