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Brass combination lock from the Anne Francis, wrecked in 1583, raised off Wales and its code read by scanning

Off the coast of Wales, a sixteenth-century brass combination lock has been lifted from the seabed at the wreck site of the English merchant ship Anne Francis, which went down in a storm in 1583. Spanish silver coins were found beside…

Alexandr Radayev · 6 November

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- Они все здесь: социалисты-революционеры, либералы, анархисты, социал-демократы. - Еврей, еврей... есть ли русские? - Один или два, Ваше Величество.
from the article "In the 1973 BBC documentary series *Fall of Eagles*, when Tsar Nicholas II is shown a list of political agitators, he asks about their backgrounds and, incidentally, is not in the least surprised by the answer"
… I… I am afraid of her eyes… yes… the eyes… I am afraid of the red patches on her cheeks, too… and of her breathing besides… Have you seen how people breathe in this illness… when their feelings are stirred?...
From the article "When I first saw this painting by Makovsky, in which a desperate wife tries to stop her husband from stumbling into a tavern, I imagined a scene from the life of the Marmeladov family"
...he would put on a little dressing-gown of dark red morocco leather lined with fur and tall fur-lined boots and, having drunk strong sweet tea, lie down on the sofa in his study, order that no one be admitted, and sleep for hours, overcoming his indispo
from the article "Mendeleev, of course, had an interesting relationship with medicine"
...on his clothes, and even here and there in his hair, bits of hay were to be seen sticking. It was very probable that for five days he had neither undressed nor washed. His hands were especially dirty, greasy, red, with black nails...
From the article: "When I first saw this painting by Makovsky, in which a desperate wife is trying to stop her husband from stumbling into a tavern, I pictured a scene from the life of the Marmeladov family"
..the blockade of the Venezuelan ports will not be lifted until the Government of Venezuela shows itself ready to act in complete good faith and to settle the matter with proper safeguards
From the article "During the civil wars in Venezuela in the late nineteenth century, European merchants in the country suffered heavy losses, chiefly German, French, Spanish and Belgian capital"
..upon Katerina Ivanovna was her only dress, a dark little cotton print with stripes.
From the material "When I first saw this painting by Makovsky, in which a desperate wife tries to stop her husband from stumbling into a tavern, I imagined a scene from the life of the Marmeladov family"
"...if one sets aside the author's political hints and the apotheosis of Louis XIV, the play is wholly empty of ideas: it raises no problems and enriches the spectator in no way, but it artfully, in a lush barren flower, serves up drops of poison."
From the article: "Bulgakov's play *A Cabal of Hypocrites*, written in 1929 and dealing with the hardships of Molière's life under the yoke of Louis XIV, was permitted to be staged only after Gorky's active intervention, after the author's conversation with Stalin, and after its title was changed to
"[Bulgakov] wants to evoke in the spectator an analogy between the position of the writer under the dictatorship of the proletariat and under the “unjudged tyranny” of Louis XIV."
from the article: "Bulgakov's play *A Cabal of Hypocrites*, written in 1929 and about the hardships of Molière's life under the yoke of Louis XIV, was permitted to be staged only after active intervention by Gorky, after the author's conversation with Stalin, after the title was changed to *Molière*
"A young author has sent us a rhymed commentary on last Saturday's breakdown of the electric trains."
from the article "In the London newspaper Ealing and Hanwell Post of 8 July 1905, the first poem by Agatha Christie was discovered, published when she was 14 years old"
"Amid the heap of Korinfsky's volumes of verse there flickers a little flame of poetic inspiration, but it barely smoulders, and the rare artistic lines are separated by whole dozens of stock, stencilled ones."
From the article "Yesterday we read poems by Apollon Korinfsky, and today we'll see what he looked like"
"And you've no cross about your neck?" "A cross? We carry our cross upon our back."
from the article "‘And there’s no cross round your neck?’ ‘A cross?’"
"And you've no cross around your neck." "A cross? We bear our cross on our backs."
from the article "'And you've no cross on your neck?' 'A cross?'"
"But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence." The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy, 2:12
from the article "I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence"
"Can a melancholic be a man of reason?" "Dejection, alien to man's nature, ill becomes wisdom, and drives the man possessed by it into madness."
From the article "Can a Melancholic Be Rational?"
"He was charming. He was the only actor who played Sherlock Holmes who bothered to get in touch with me and come to see me. All that time he kept ringing me and asking for my opinion. He took criticism very well and never tried to justify himself."
From the article: "Dame Jean Conan Doyle, the youngest daughter of the writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, recalled how the actor Jeremy Brett came to meet her:"
"How shall we fly so fast?" asked Lenore. "The road is smooth for the dead," answered Wilhelm
From the material: "Frederick II's troops were returning home after the Battle of Prague in 1757. Young Lenore was waiting for her Wilhelm, but he was not among those who returned."
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from the article "'I was dislocated from childhood.' 'Then set yourself right!'"
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From the article "In February 1937, the Leningrad Palace of Pioneers opened in the Anichkov Palace; it is now the St Petersburg City Palace of Youth Creativity"
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From the article "On the eve of the opening of the 78th Cannes Film Festival, Brigitte Bardot, who made her debut there in 1953, 72 years ago, gave an interview to French television"
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from the article "Curious Details of Bishop Tikhon's Struggle against Seminarians Who Were Vagrants, Mischief-Makers and Prey to the Vile, Suspect and Drunken Passion of Intemperance in the 1770s"
"Mama, mama, they said at the museum that Mayakovsky shot himself because of Lilya Brik." "No, he shot himself because of me."
From the article: "'Mum, Mum, they said at the museum that Mayakovsky killed himself because of Lilya Brik.' 'No, he killed himself because of me.'"
"My father and his friends found a way to express themselves through the press. The families of my classmates did not understand this: in their eyes I was not fit for company."
From the article "My father and his friends found a way to express themselves through the press"
"On Sunday, 27 July, a certain person, named Van Gogh, aged 37, a Dutch subject, an artist, temporarily resident in Auvers, shot himself with a revolver in a field and, being only wounded, returned to his room where on the third day he died."
from the article "The graves of the brothers Vincent and Theo van Gogh at the municipal cemetery in Auvers-sur-Oise, 30 km from Paris"
"On to your Waterloo," whispers my heart Pray I'll be Wellington, not Bonapart... "On to your Waterloo," my heart whispers. I pray to be Wellington and not Bonaparte...
From the article "The heroine of the now half-forgotten musical melodrama *Gigi* sings, in one of the film's touching scenes that decides her fate:"
"Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white, separate and unequal."
from the material "I read in *Sovetskaya etnografiya* for 1969 a review headlined 'The country is heading for a split…'"
"Pull as many faces as you like behind my back; my backside is watching you"
from the article "'Pull as many faces as you like behind my back; my backside is watching you'"
"Sergei Viktorovich, how is the mood ahead of the summit?" "See for yourself."
From the article "'Sergei Viktorovich, how are you feeling ahead of the summit?' – 'See for yourself.'"
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from the article "Let us recall the teaching of Saint Cyril of Jerusalem:"
"There are no more magnificent actors, there are no more people who make you dream."
From the article "On the eve of the opening of the 78th Cannes Film Festival, Brigitte Bardot, who made her debut there in 1953, 72 years ago, gave an interview to French television"
"They and Tom threw poor Carlo into the water and pelted him with stones, and he looked at me so piteously, as if to ask: 'Why do you not save me?..' Again I was beaten, for refusing to drown him."
from the article "'This little dog was my only consolation'

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- Они все здесь: социалисты-революционеры, либералы, анархисты, социал-демократы. - Еврей, еврей... есть ли русские? - Один или два, Ваше Величество.
from the article "In the 1973 BBC documentary series *Fall of Eagles*, when Tsar Nicholas II is shown a list of political agitators, he asks about their backgrounds and, incidentally, is not in the least surprised by the answer"
… I… I am afraid of her eyes… yes… the eyes… I am afraid of the red patches on her cheeks, too… and of her breathing besides… Have you seen how people breathe in this illness… when their feelings are stirred?...
From the article "When I first saw this painting by Makovsky, in which a desperate wife tries to stop her husband from stumbling into a tavern, I imagined a scene from the life of the Marmeladov family"
...he would put on a little dressing-gown of dark red morocco leather lined with fur and tall fur-lined boots and, having drunk strong sweet tea, lie down on the sofa in his study, order that no one be admitted, and sleep for hours, overcoming his indispo
from the article "Mendeleev, of course, had an interesting relationship with medicine"
...on his clothes, and even here and there in his hair, bits of hay were to be seen sticking. It was very probable that for five days he had neither undressed nor washed. His hands were especially dirty, greasy, red, with black nails...
From the article: "When I first saw this painting by Makovsky, in which a desperate wife is trying to stop her husband from stumbling into a tavern, I pictured a scene from the life of the Marmeladov family"
..the blockade of the Venezuelan ports will not be lifted until the Government of Venezuela shows itself ready to act in complete good faith and to settle the matter with proper safeguards
From the article "During the civil wars in Venezuela in the late nineteenth century, European merchants in the country suffered heavy losses, chiefly German, French, Spanish and Belgian capital"
..upon Katerina Ivanovna was her only dress, a dark little cotton print with stripes.
From the material "When I first saw this painting by Makovsky, in which a desperate wife tries to stop her husband from stumbling into a tavern, I imagined a scene from the life of the Marmeladov family"
"...if one sets aside the author's political hints and the apotheosis of Louis XIV, the play is wholly empty of ideas: it raises no problems and enriches the spectator in no way, but it artfully, in a lush barren flower, serves up drops of poison."
From the article: "Bulgakov's play *A Cabal of Hypocrites*, written in 1929 and dealing with the hardships of Molière's life under the yoke of Louis XIV, was permitted to be staged only after Gorky's active intervention, after the author's conversation with Stalin, and after its title was changed to
"[Bulgakov] wants to evoke in the spectator an analogy between the position of the writer under the dictatorship of the proletariat and under the “unjudged tyranny” of Louis XIV."
from the article: "Bulgakov's play *A Cabal of Hypocrites*, written in 1929 and about the hardships of Molière's life under the yoke of Louis XIV, was permitted to be staged only after active intervention by Gorky, after the author's conversation with Stalin, after the title was changed to *Molière*
"A young author has sent us a rhymed commentary on last Saturday's breakdown of the electric trains."
from the article "In the London newspaper Ealing and Hanwell Post of 8 July 1905, the first poem by Agatha Christie was discovered, published when she was 14 years old"
"Amid the heap of Korinfsky's volumes of verse there flickers a little flame of poetic inspiration, but it barely smoulders, and the rare artistic lines are separated by whole dozens of stock, stencilled ones."
From the article "Yesterday we read poems by Apollon Korinfsky, and today we'll see what he looked like"
"And you've no cross about your neck?" "A cross? We carry our cross upon our back."
from the article "‘And there’s no cross round your neck?’ ‘A cross?’"
"And you've no cross around your neck." "A cross? We bear our cross on our backs."
from the article "'And you've no cross on your neck?' 'A cross?'"
"But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence." The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy, 2:12
from the article "I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence"
"Can a melancholic be a man of reason?" "Dejection, alien to man's nature, ill becomes wisdom, and drives the man possessed by it into madness."
From the article "Can a Melancholic Be Rational?"
"He was charming. He was the only actor who played Sherlock Holmes who bothered to get in touch with me and come to see me. All that time he kept ringing me and asking for my opinion. He took criticism very well and never tried to justify himself."
From the article: "Dame Jean Conan Doyle, the youngest daughter of the writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, recalled how the actor Jeremy Brett came to meet her:"
"How shall we fly so fast?" asked Lenore. "The road is smooth for the dead," answered Wilhelm
From the material: "Frederick II's troops were returning home after the Battle of Prague in 1757. Young Lenore was waiting for her Wilhelm, but he was not among those who returned."
"I was put out of joint in childhood, but you can set yourself right!"
from the article "'I was dislocated from childhood.' 'Then set yourself right!'"
"If it were up to me, I'd give this palace to our Leningrad kids!" "Quite right! So it is decided. You and I think alike, Kuzmich"
From the article "In February 1937, the Leningrad Palace of Pioneers opened in the Anichkov Palace; it is now the St Petersburg City Palace of Youth Creativity"
"In my whole life I have never been able to go to a bistro and drink a coffee on the terrace. I am a prisoner of myself. I cannot run away from myself."
From the article "On the eve of the opening of the 78th Cannes Film Festival, Brigitte Bardot, who made her debut there in 1953, 72 years ago, gave an interview to French television"
"Let the most honest of the pupils be appointed fiscals, that they might keep watch and faithfully report to the teachers on the idlers and vagabonds and those who loiter by the shops, and let the teachers unremittingly flog and fine them."
from the article "Curious Details of Bishop Tikhon's Struggle against Seminarians Who Were Vagrants, Mischief-Makers and Prey to the Vile, Suspect and Drunken Passion of Intemperance in the 1770s"
"Mama, mama, they said at the museum that Mayakovsky shot himself because of Lilya Brik." "No, he shot himself because of me."
From the article: "'Mum, Mum, they said at the museum that Mayakovsky killed himself because of Lilya Brik.' 'No, he killed himself because of me.'"
"My father and his friends found a way to express themselves through the press. The families of my classmates did not understand this: in their eyes I was not fit for company."
From the article "My father and his friends found a way to express themselves through the press"
"On Sunday, 27 July, a certain person, named Van Gogh, aged 37, a Dutch subject, an artist, temporarily resident in Auvers, shot himself with a revolver in a field and, being only wounded, returned to his room where on the third day he died."
from the article "The graves of the brothers Vincent and Theo van Gogh at the municipal cemetery in Auvers-sur-Oise, 30 km from Paris"
"On to your Waterloo," whispers my heart Pray I'll be Wellington, not Bonapart... "On to your Waterloo," my heart whispers. I pray to be Wellington and not Bonaparte...
From the article "The heroine of the now half-forgotten musical melodrama *Gigi* sings, in one of the film's touching scenes that decides her fate:"
"Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white, separate and unequal."
from the material "I read in *Sovetskaya etnografiya* for 1969 a review headlined 'The country is heading for a split…'"
"Pull as many faces as you like behind my back; my backside is watching you"
from the article "'Pull as many faces as you like behind my back; my backside is watching you'"
"Sergei Viktorovich, how is the mood ahead of the summit?" "See for yourself."
From the article "'Sergei Viktorovich, how are you feeling ahead of the summit?' – 'See for yourself.'"
"So when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains"
from the article "Let us recall the teaching of Saint Cyril of Jerusalem:"
"There are no more magnificent actors, there are no more people who make you dream."
From the article "On the eve of the opening of the 78th Cannes Film Festival, Brigitte Bardot, who made her debut there in 1953, 72 years ago, gave an interview to French television"
"They and Tom threw poor Carlo into the water and pelted him with stones, and he looked at me so piteously, as if to ask: 'Why do you not save me?..' Again I was beaten, for refusing to drown him."
from the article "'This little dog was my only consolation'

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