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The British Pope most people have never heard of
Tens of thousands of people have descended on Vatican City to pay their respects to Pope Francis, whose funeral will be held ...
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How the Imperial War Museum became the reluctant owner of an official Nazi portrait of Adolf Hitler
The painting by the Nazi artist Heinrich Knirr was originally installed in the German embassy in London in 1937 ...
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Gandhi bust in S African province where Indians were banned for over 100 yrs
The bust in bronze by Padma Bhushan Awardee Ram Vangi Sutar was donated to Anglo-Boer War Museum by Indian Council for ...
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How many artefacts in the British Museum are actually British?
The British Museum said that even with more than 2 million ... of Halikarnassos (from modern-day Bodrum in Turkey), the Bust of Rameses the Great (Egypt) and the Rosetta Stone (Egypt) — the ...
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Churchill sculpture to be reinstalled at Fulton museum
A bronze bust of Winston Churchill will be reinstalled at Westminster College next week. The sculpture by Czech-British ...
Museum celebrates Cornish heroine's 165th birthday
A museum about the life of Cornish heroine Emily Hobhouse is celebrating her 165th birthday. Hobhouse saved the lives of ...
Barbara Broccoli’s First Post-Bond Film Move Is to Join the Board of BFI America
BFI America is being billed as a “champion the work of the BFI in the U.S. and internationally, including the vital ...
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Museum celebrates Cornish heroine's 165th birthday
A museum about the life of Cornish heroine Emily Hobhouse is celebrating her 165th birthday. Hobhouse saved the lives of thousands of women and children held in British concentration camps in ...
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An A-Z Of (Recently) Lost London
Also: L Manze (Walthamstow), Leicester Square busts of Hogarth ... Also: Queue-less entry to the National Gallery, British Museum and Natural History Museum The 1970s brutalist housing blocks ...