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‘Extremely rare’ 17th-century painting of Black woman with White companion placed under export bar from UK

Sana Noor Haq, CNN A 17th-century painting showing a Black woman with her White companion has been placed under a temporary export bar to reduce the risk of the artwork leaving the United Kingdom. The anonymous painting, described in a statement by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) on Friday as “extremely

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Mary, Queen of Scots used ‘spiral locking’ technique to preserve secrecy of last letter before her execution

By Sana Noor Haq, CNN Mary, Queen of Scots used a “spiral locking” technique to seal the last letter she wrote before her execution, indicating that she wanted the contents to remain secret, according to research published in the Electronic British Library Journal. An example of letterlocking — where people doubled letters as envelopes to

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Berlin’s troubled Brandenburg Airport still in crisis one year after opening

Blane Bachelor, CNN After nearly a decade of delays and billions of euros over budget, Berlin’s long-awaited airport, Berlin-Brandenburg, finally opened on October 31, 2020. But turbulence has continued for BER during its first year of operation, with a long list of problems and passenger complaints: lengthy check-in and security lines; confusing layout and signage;

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Delta plane makes emergency landing after passenger assaults flight attendant and air marshal, police say

By Andy Rose, Kay Jones and Pete Muntean, CNN A Delta flight from Washington, DC, to Los Angeles made an emergency landing in Oklahoma City on Thursday night after a passenger allegedly assaulted two people, authorities said. “The passenger assaulted a flight attendant,” Oklahoma City Police Capt. Arthur Gregory told CNN. An air marshal on

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Sweden reclaims place names from IKEA

By Julia Buckley, CNN Bolmen: your toilet brush. Toftan: your trash can. Misterhult: your bamboo lamp. Those exotic-sounding names that IKEA gives your household products are familiar words to Swedish speakers — often, they’re named after famous destinations. And now, the Swedish tourist board is reclaiming those names in a new marketing campaign, designed to

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Pantone unveils Color of the Year for 2022

CNN Leah Dolan, CNN While many of us will spend the final days of 2021 reflecting on its whirlwind events, global color authority Pantone has already been busy looking ahead — to decide on the shade that will best encapsulate 2022. On Wednesday it unveiled Very Peri, a periwinkle hue that the company says combines

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