Where Stalin met Lenin.
Cracow 1912

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This is Rocco. His haircut may be fake, but it's very real to him. 13/10

It is one of Oxford’s great trees

Théo Van Rysselberghe painted this Portrait of Marguerite Van Mons in 1886. It was a period where he was trying his hand at various styles before converting to pointillism in 1888.

The mood of some of the works from this earlier period tend to be rather melancholic and…

I am, quite literally, trembling with excitement at the latest frescoes to be uncovered at Pompeii. They're some of the finest I've seen. A wonderful piece in today's Times with helpful maps and Radio 4's bit this morning (on iPlayer) worth replaying thetimes.co.uk/article/pompei…

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Wow!

A man in a North Face jacket was having a loud, hands-free phone call on the opposite platform, pacing up and down as if he was presenting a TED Talk. I heard the word 'functionality' and sighed. Then he disappeared onto a train and a rainbow appeared.

Thank you The Times and The Sunday Times I appreciate the change. 🙏

Well said, Matthew Pinsent!
St Catz, Oxford

Appuntamento al tramonto agli #Uffizi ?Quando?
Ma ogni martedì sera...fino a dicembre😉
Vi aspettiamo!
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Is this the new face of Music & Movement, BBC Radio 3? Petroc Trelawny walking down Regent Street, ‘swinging his cane’, and Ian Skelly and producers dancing the Minuet in the studio?
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In our first year we made 165 grants worth a total of £350K.

We supported festivals, composer career development, composer-led projects, recording projects, commissioning, student bursaries as well as projects celebrating the legacy of Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Supporting Imperial College London in memory of my Ceylon Tamil gfather, an alumnus of mid-30s where he met my English gmother.
Congratulations to both teams & Amol Rajan!
So pleased to see a question on beloved Fauré correctly answered by Lee! 😊Steven Isserlis

#universitychallenge

🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia, which tortures women’s rights activists, was unanimously elected chair of the U.N. Women Rights Commission.

They will preside over the March 2025 annual session attended by thousands.

We are now calling on all women's rights activists to announce they won't go.

6/ In December 2023, experts of the UN itself called out Saudi Arabia's brutal repression of women's rights defenders. So why is the same organization making the regime head of its women's rights commission?

Creepy.org In December 2004, Tilly Smith, a 10-year-old British schoolgirl, was vacationing with her family in Phuket, Thailand. They were enjoying a day at Mai Khao Beach when Tilly noticed something unusual. The sea was frothing, and the tide was receding rapidly—phenomena she had…