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‘Succession’ saves the best for last with its riveting season 3 finale

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN After a third season filled with high-stakes chess moves, the question lingered whether “Succession’s” finale could close the deal. It did, literally and figuratively, in an episode that again shuffled allegiances and featured perhaps the most eventful wedding in terms of behind-the scenes drama since “The Godfather.” The Emmy-winning HBO

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The painting

‘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 became a political target under the reign of Elizabeth I

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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