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THE ALUMINIUM PIMPERNEL
Hardly anyone can remember the Baroness Emmuska Orczy these days, and were it not for a Broadway musical, her best-selling novel would have been forgotten, too. It was called The Scarlet Pimpernel, and...
View ArticleRUSSIA TEACHES LITHUANIA A WELL OILED LESSON
Lithuania, the little state on the shore of the Baltic Sea, has a proud, and under Adolf Hitler, an unpleasant history of hostility towards Russia. If its accession to the European Union was an...
View ArticleTHE ALROSA CHALLENGE TO DE BEERS
In the most famous words ever addressed to a gemstone ring, the Princess Elizabeth greeted news of the death of her rival, Queen Mary, with the words: “This is the Lord’s doing. It is marvellous in our...
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