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Alexandr Radayev
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Trackers on the Yangtze, 1946
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The members of the Council of Paris await the next post in Parnassian Mockingbird about the dreadful Mayor Anne Hidalgo
The members of the Council of Paris await the next post in Parnassian Mockingbird about the dreadful Mayor Anne Hidalgo. And so it goes every day, for a mere 4283 euros a month
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World map with south at the top, published by the Brazilian government
A map of the world according to the government of Brazil. Indeed, why not?
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Might the journalists of REN TV put their questions about extraterrestrial cities in South America and Tsiolkovsky's acquaintance with the Martians not to me, but to the author of this opus
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Poet Inna Lisnyanskaya on the events of October 1993 in a letter to her daughter
Stinking Democrats, Cunning Communists, Screeching Liberals, Idiots, Suicides and Thieves. The exceptions are Yeltsin and, perhaps, Gaidar. The poet Inna Lisnyanskaya on the events of October 1993, in a letter to her daughter
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A Russian poem of the early seventeenth century, that is, of the close of the Time of Troubles, describing the sinful love of a sister for her brother
What is more, the sister has no fear of public censure and is ready to pursue her brother's love in spite of everyone around her. The displeasure of people at such conduct she calls envy. Of all places, here is where I never expected to find a fiery
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Listen, this many days off every month is frankly not serious
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Leo XIV explains choice of name by Rerum Novarum and the rise of artificial intelligence
Unlike the start of Francis's pontificate in 2013, when the newly elected pope's first meeting with the cardinals was broadcast live, Leo XIV chose to hold his behind closed doors. The Vatican has published part of the Pope's address, in which, as a supplement
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So the Vatican may escape higher tariffs, now that it has a Pope made in the USA?
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Inside Ourselves We Are All the Same Age
Gertrude Stein
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