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25 hours ago

What links Amy Adams, Teri Hatcher and Margot Kidder? The Saturday quiz ⊖

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

From Cecil at Waitrose and Slinky at Tesco to an app designed to be deleted, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

1 In 1932, Australia declared war on which bird?
2 What became the world’s talles…

43 hours ago

Daggers, dervishes, Rego and the world’s most expensive egg – the week in art

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

The British Museum is infused with Sufi spirit, Henry VIII’s storied Ottoman dagger gets its own show, Rego’s art is renewed and a Fabergé sets a new record – all in your weekly dispatch

Henry VIII’s …

13 days ago

Holbein: Renaissance Master by Elizabeth Goldring review – a magnificent portrait of the artist

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

The first scholarly biography in more than 100 years of the man who immortalised the Tudor court does not disappoint

Much of what we know, or think we know, about the court of Henry VIII comes directl…

14 days ago

‘I still get humiliated’: the perils of appearing on a celebrity gameshow

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Agents claim it can increase their clients’ profile and show off their human side. Is that your final answer?

For Monty Panesar, it was answering that Germany played their home football matches in Ath…

34 days ago

In Grok we don’t trust: academics assess Elon Musk’s AI-powered encyclopedia ⊕

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

From publishing falsehoods to pushing far-right ideology, Grokipedia gives chatroom comments equal status to research

The eminent British historian Sir Richard Evans produced three expert witness repo…

37 days ago

‘We stick two fingers up at Henry VIII’: can the riotous all-Japanese Six out-Tudor-queen the original? ⊕

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The Japanese version of the pop-rock phenomenon about the six ill-fated wives caused a sensation in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya. As that production now hits the UK, we go behind the scenes (and thrones)

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Coat of arms of Henry VIII's condemned adviser found after 500 years: 'Victorian replica' hanging in Welsh home is Cardinal Thomas Wolsey's original, stunned experts find ⊖

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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, Henry VIII's Lord Chancellor failed to secure an annulment of the King's marriage to Catherine of Aragon. His coat of arms has been found at Gwysaney Hall in Wales.

41 days ago

Pensioner, 71, being evicted from estate where BBC hit Ghosts was filmed accuses owners of wanting to 'turn it into a holiday let for fans'

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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Baschea Walsh has lived for nearly two decades on the grounds of West Horsley Place, a 15th-century Grade I-listed manor once owned by Henry VIII in Surrey.

44 days ago

A rift that took 500 years to repair: King Charles prays with the pope ⊕

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Joint prayer in Sistine Chapel is symbolic act of rapprochement between Catholic church and Church of England after centuries of division

Almost every British schoolchild is taught that Henry VIII, th…

50 days ago

‘Legacies condensed to AI slop’: OpenAI Sora videos of the dead raise alarm with legal experts

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

The video app can produce realistic deepfakes of Marx shopping and MLK Jr trolling. Some say using ‘historical figures’ is the company’s way of testing the legal waters

Last night I was flicking throu…

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