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US President R. Nixon And General Secretary Of The CPSU Central Committee L. I. Brezhnev After Signing
US President R. Nixon and General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee L. I. Brezhnev after signing the SALT-1 arms limitation treaty, Moscow, 1972.
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L. Belousova and O. Protopopov. Photographer Sergei Lidov. USSR, 1965
Mary Stuart's Football; 16th Century
Probably the world's oldest surviving football - discovered behind wall panels in the royal apartments at Stirling Castle in Scotland.
Dating back to the 1540s, it probably belonged to Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots - who was crowned at the castle in 1543 and subsequently visited it on numerous occasions. The queen was known to be keen on football, golf, horse riding and other sports; her diaries contain entries of games of football in the courtyards and on the lawns of the castle, in which she and other aristocrats, as well as commoners, took an active part.
Why the queen left (or forgot) this ball behind a wall panel in her apartments will probably forever remain a mystery.
Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston, Sting and Elton John, 2000s
The first edition of "The Lord of the Rings" in the USSR. 1966, translated by Zinaida Bobyr