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Two abandoned Soviet space shuttles left in the Kazakh steppe

A building called MKZ houses two of the shuttles, only one of which was designed to fly into space: "This is the first photo ever showing both space shuttles and the entire MZK building. It's the main ...
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Famous Picasso paintings: 7 works that captured our imagination

It’s hard to imagine a visual record of the 20th century without Pablo Ruiz Picasso. With his bold shapes and characteristic angles, the Spanish artist captured everything from the horrors of war to ...
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Sexy, skintight, sophisticated: How China’s iconic dress has survived a century

Worn by Hong Kong actress Linda Lin Dai, four-time Best Actress award winner at the Asia Film Festival, this cheongsam exhibits a popular style in the 1950s, with an extremely narrow hem. A zip sewn ...
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Met Gala 2022: Best fashion from the red carpet

The Met Gala is fashion’s big night out – and celebrities are known for saving their most striking outfits for its often-theatrical red carpet. Stars across industries including TV, film, politics and ...
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From dark origins to a ‘beacon of hope’: A brief history of the Olympic torch

The Olympic torch relay has been downgraded for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Games, with Covid-19 turning the flame’s traditionally public journey from Olympia, Greece, into a largely private affair. While ...
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‘George Eliot’ among 25 female writers being republished using their real names

Victorian-era writer Mary Ann Evans is often heralded as the literary force behind one of Britain’s greatest ever novels, “Middlemarch.” But for much of her life, and even today, she is better known ...
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Karl Lagerfeld’s most controversial quotes

Karl Lagerfeld will be remembered for many things, from his transformation of Chanel to his visionary designs and elaborate runway shows. He’ll also be remembered for his candidness. Blunt and ...
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Work begins on the tallest skyscraper in Africa

The mighty peaks of Kilimanjaro and Kenya are the highest points in Africa, towering over the East Coast nations. The mountains will soon be sharing a skyline with a man-made behemoth named simply: ...
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World’s largest blue diamond to come to auction has sold for $57.5 million

The world’s largest blue diamond ever to come to auction has sold for 450,925,000 HKD, or $57.5 million. Named “The De Beers Cullinan Blue,” the massive 15.10-carat step-cut gem sold at Sotheby’s in ...
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Balenciaga apologizes for ads featuring children holding bondage bears

Luxury fashion house Balenciaga has apologized for featuring children cuddling teddy bears dressed in bondage gear in its latest advertising campaign. Shot by photographer Gabriele Galimberti, images ...
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Can seaweed help solve the world’s plastic crisis?

After you finish your fries, eat the ketchup packet. When you add your pasta to boiling water, toss the bag into the pot, too. If these instructions sound confusing to you, it’s only because you haven ...
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Architects have designed a Martian city for the desert outside Dubai

Dubai is a city where firefighters use jetpacks, archipelagos are built from scratch, and buildings climb into the clouds; a slick metropolis in the middle of a vast red desert. First-time visitors ...