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The Russian stray dog that beat humans into orbit

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Botero's Mona Lisa (Credit: Alamy)

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Close up photo of Emma Cline against the backdrop of a collaged book covers of Switzy (Credit: Penguin/ Caroline Tompkins)

The deathly book that caused a prize controversy

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Marie-Antoinette Lix posing with a sword while wearing a hat and wearing a military uniform (Credit: Paris Musée de l'Armée/ Dist Grand Palais Rmn)

The Parisian women who lived and dressed as men

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Jaalen Best as Muhammad Ali fighting an opponent in a boxing ring in The Greatest (Credit: Amazon Prime)

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(Credit: Symbiotic House/ Masaya Yoshimura / A House in Japan, gestalten 2026)

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Matt Damon as Odysseus in The Oydssey (Credit: Universal Pictures)

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