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This Dress Survived for More Than Three Centuries at the Bottom of the Sea – The New York Times

There’s your story:

«The dresses, probably made in about 1620, were about 30 years old by the time they went down with the ship. The silk dress had a wider waist and was probably for an older woman, researchers said. The silver dress may have been a wedding dress, which could mean that the two dresses had different owners, they added.»

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/world/europe/shipwreck-dress-netherlands.html

Chartreuse

Possible reasons I think the monks that make green chartreuse “decided to cut back” their production:

1. They’re playing to jack up the price.

2. They ran out of some crucial ingredient, some rare flower.

3. One of the brothers got drunk and accidentally demolished two entire racks of product with a fork lift.

ICC issues arrest warrant for Putin over Ukraine war crimes | AP News

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«The ICC said its pre-trial chamber found “reasonable grounds” that Putin “bears individual criminal responsibility” for the child abductions “for having committed the acts directly, jointly with others and/or through others” and for failing to “exercise control properly over civilian and military subordinates who committed the acts.”»

https://apnews.com/article/icc-putin-war-crimes-ukraine-9857eb68d827340394960eccf0589253