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The roots of the coronation ritual are fabulously ancient: certain elements of the ceremony are vest
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It's 1975, and in the final act of the Vietnam War, the U.S. have ordered all remaining civilian and
Rin Tin Tin, born on the Western Front in 1918, became one of the biggest movie stars of the silent
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