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An unexpectedly Impressionist Repin! Ilya Repin painted A Walk with Lanterns in 1879, during his five years in Moscow, but the picture was created not in Moscow but at Abramtsevo. In the painting we see Elizaveta Grigoryevna Mamontova, the mistress of the Abramtsevo house, surrounded by children on an avenue
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Twice Hero of the Soviet Union, cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was also a rather good artist. In this photograph of 1979, Leonov is at work on his painting “The Voskhod 2 Spacecraft”
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More precisely, among the sceliphron wasps, that is, the digging kind, which make out of clay such charming capsules, as though excavated in the land of Lilliput, and stuff them with little spiders and small insects. The growing wasp larva feeds on the provisions stored in these mud-walled cells,
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Evil is not the absence of good, but a force in its own right, full and substantial. "Barbarism" by Michel Henry (1922-2002). Henry is the greatest representative of French phenomenology, and sadly little known in present-day philosophical circles. Happily, however, he has very recently been reissued
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An Iranian silver wine cup with a griffin holds 1.5 litres of wine. Its age: more than 2,500 years
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