In 1503, Leonardo da Vinci began work on one of the (if not the) most famous paintings in the world: Mona Lisa. Da Vinci’s painting was acquired by the French King, Francis I, after he died in 1519, having spent the last years of his life in the French court....
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Despite what many fairy tales might tell you, not all stories end with a Happily Ever After. In fiction and reality, finding love (let alone the mythologised True Love) is much harder than simply going into the woods and finding a long-lost princess. Even outside of this genre, love conquering...
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More than forty years ago, Terry Pratchett introduced us to Discworld. A world that may sound and smell like our own, but looks completely different. A world that (as the name suggests) is shaped like a disc and is carried on the backs of four elephants, standing on the shell...
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