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The Venice Festival was born under Mussolini's warm wing. Its founder, Giuseppe Volpi, a rather successful Italian politician, sat on the Grand Council of Fascism right up to 1943. True, when he spoke out against the alliance with Hitler, he was not merely driven out of every post
The East · Geography · Maps
A Map of Persia from 1922, a Diagram of the Border with the USSR and a Map of Present-Day Iran. The shared border between Iran and the USSR: 2,500 km of land border, Azerbaijani-Iranian, Armenian-Iranian and Turkmen-Iranian, together with the maritime border on the Caspian
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The Bank of England is considering replacing the images of Winston Churchill and other historical figures on its banknotes with other "symbols of national identity". Among those named are Stonehenge, the oak tree, fish and chips and football. Though why stop at fish and chips? Let us go
Moscow · Observations · Society · Paris · Nature · Humour
Extreme heat continues in France. The red alert level has been declared in 16 departments of the country. Since yesterday the top floor of the Eiffel Tower has been closed to visitors because of the high temperature. Abnormal heat is also being recorded in Spain, Portugal, Belgium and the Netherlands.
Art · People
Scorcelletti formed his style under the influence of the aesthetics of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Mario Giacomelli, and in the end his search for rigour and geometric perfection led him to a new photographic expression, free of templates and leaving room for poetry. Through light, shadow, nature and landscape he
Cinema · Education · People
Michèle Laroque, I think everyone will remember this actress: at 19 she was in a car crash, and, with multiple fractures, the girl, who had loved sport and dancing, found herself bedridden for a long time. She was able to walk again only after two years. At that time the
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The cover of Bryan Ferry's album Olympia with Kate Moss is a reference to Édouard Manet's painting "Olympia". The musician says he wanted to convey the spirit of the picture without copying the pose. Doubtful, of course. The resemblance is, in truth, nil. Presumably
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Walt Disney in Paris on the Place de la Concorde in 1935 recalls the French origin of his surname, which was originally d'Isigny. The name derives from that of the town of Isigny in Normandy. Walt Disney's ancestors were Norman French who emigrated to England, and
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