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Cultural Favourites from the Archives – Letters That Changed The World

Intelligence Squared

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The Best Way to End a Quarrel

Catherine and Potemkin were probably the most successful political partnership in all of history. They were incredible, passionate love affair, but they also succeeded amazingly well politically. He was Russian, undisciplined. Oftentimes when she was talking to ambassadors, like the French ambassador in a formal imperial audience, the door at the end of the room would open. And Potemkin would walk through the room just in a pair of Turkish pantaloons, going on an apple and wearing a bandana like a rock star. All my joy is to feel life spring from your flower fountain, that mine keeps to fill all the paths of my nerves, which are yours.

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