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Missing for centuries, where are the final resting places of some of history’s greatest figures?

Few objects in the long history of the Catholic church stir the imagination quite like the fabled sedia stercoraria. With a name that roughly translates as ‘dung chair’, the myth of the so-called papa

A tree bunny put on Facebook by the Small Press Rescue Centre. We are always glad to receive pictures of spontaneous forms and figures, or any curious images. Send them (with your postal address) to F

July’s magazine featured a review of Max Hastings’s book Sword: D-Day Trial by Battle, alongside an iconic photograph of British troops. That image has featured so many times in articles and TV shows

An idyllic neighbourhood on the edge of Berlin was once home to elite Nazis who carried out some of the worst crimes of the era. Eighty years on, the families that live there are still grappling with its tangled legacy. Sally McGrane reports

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