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A scandal has erupted in the Netherlands: the Speaker of the Dutch parliament discussed the partition of Belgium with the French ambassador. At a dinner with the French ambassador and several MPs, Martin Bosma suggested that dividing Belgium might not be a bad idea. France could have Wallonia, and the
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Scientists are considering altering clouds to reflect sunlight as one way of preventing runaway climate change. The British government is prepared to spend £50 million of taxpayers' money on dimming the sun, while at the same time covering the best agricultural land with vast solar panels, which need sunlight.
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Benvenuto Cellini's Perseus, 1550s, and Michelangelo's David, 1504. They gaze at one another outside the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence
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A Soviet English textbook, 1953
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The Art Newspaper Russia Awards for 2024 have been presented. The annual ceremony took place in the hall of the Pushkin Theatre, and I congratulate the whole team, the editorial board of the newspaper and, personally, Milena Orlova and Tatiana Sakhokia on this important event in Russian culture. The winners
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Quotations from great men
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In early June 2013, on the 3rd if memory serves, this anonymous art object appeared outside the Samara Public Library. A section of masonry at the base of a column, with books in place of bricks. The object appeared early on Monday morning, and photographs of it quickly spread across
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Before taking his degrees in philosophy and theology, Pope Francis took a degree in food chemistry. The subject of food production, papal-style, is explored in the book “Tavola con Papa Francesco” (“A Table with Pope Francis”), “tavola” meaning the gathering around the table.
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Hollywood Tightens the Screws. Film Academy members will be obliged to watch all the films in contention for the awards. It is hard to believe that this had to be enshrined in a special rule. Americans! In the final round of voting, the Academy's electronic voting system will