What do the descendants of dethroned monarchs have to offer the continent in the 21st century?
The history of europe can be told through its royal dynasties—the Habsburgs, the Bourbons, the Romanovs, the Stuarts, the House of Hohenzollern, the House of Orange 🍊
The Albanian royal residence is easy to miss, tucked away on a quiet side street behind the national art museum. While Buckingham Palace has 775 rooms, including 188 staff bedrooms, 19 staterooms, and 78 bathrooms, the Albanian residence would be among the smaller, more understated houses in a wealthy American suburb. Its front gate opens onto a yard where the country stores its unwanted Soviet statues: Lenin, Stalin, and the Albanian Communist leader Enver Hoxha all gaze with stony fortitude at a generic Stakhanovite maiden. Lenin has no arms. Hoxha’s nose is missing.
Halyna Chernyshova never believed her quiet Ukrainian town would be taken by Russian soldiers.
Two Russian Oligarchs Die Suddenly Under Mysterious Circumstances
Watford—who had changed his name from the original Tolstosheya—was born in 1955 in then-Soviet Ukraine and had made a name for himself after becoming an oil and gas magnate.
Watford, 66, was found hanged in the garage of his home by a gardener, according to The Daily Mail. Surrey police said the circumstances around his death were not suspicious, as reported by the BBC.
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A Pennsylvania school district has voted against a parent’s request to launch a satanic group’s After School Satan Club at an elementary school for students who want to participate in an extracurricular program that is non-religious.
A devil may care attitude?
Passed down through generations, the Slavic peasant practice of magic, witchcraft, and sorcery is still alive and well in Russia, the Ukraine, and Belarus, as well as the Balkans and the Baltic states.
There are still witches who whisper upon tied knots to curse or heal, sorceresses who shapeshift into animals or household objects, magicians who cast spells for love or good fortune, and common folk who seek their aid for daily problems big and small.
Slavic Witchcraft Old World Conjuring Spells and Folklore
In 19th-century Macedonia, a young girl is kidnapped and then transformed into a witch by an ancient spirit. Curious about life as a human, the witch accidentally kills a peasant in the nearby village and then takes her victim's shape to live life in her skin. Her curiosity ignited, she continues to wield this horrific power to understand what it means to be human.
The Macedonian “You Won’t Be Alone” is an excellent movie 🍿
I love the notion that the whole course of the war was changed by this small group, hunkered down in a smoky basement room – Michelle Ashford
Operation Mincemeat is set in 1943 as the Allies are determined to launch an all-out assault on Fortress Europe. But they face an impossible challenge - to protect a massive invasion force from entrenched German firepower and avert a potential massacre.
The young Ian Fleming, we’re told, was one of the agents who helped devise Operation Mincemeat. At intervals, Madden’s camera catches him lounging in the corner, tapping away at his typewriter; a semi-detached player in this particular plot, already dreaming of bigger, better things.
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Researchers identify bacteria linked to aggressive prostate cancer.
STILL NEWS YOU CAN USE: Why Your Kids Should Be Lifting Weights. The Insta-daughter, who has generally favored more “girly” exercises like barre and Pilates, is now doing deadlifts and sled drags and farmer’s carries and I couldn’t be more proud.
The Art of Putting Your Talent in the Service of the World: The Russian Prince Turned Anarchist and Pioneering Scientist Peter Kropotkin’s Advice to the Young
“Courage, devotion, the spirit of sacrifice, are as contagious as cowardice, submission, and panic.”
Library sounds’ are some of the most searched-for ‘intoxicating sleep sounds’ available online — a heady combination of ‘page-turning, whispering, writing’ and the crinkling of dust jackets