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Alexandr Radayev
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Voltaire on how the absurdity of Christian dogma breeds atheists
False science breeds atheists; true science brings men to their knees before God. but The absurdity of Christian dogmas breeds atheists. Both the one and the other: Voltaire
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Will someone please summon Claude Monet at once
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Veterans of the Union, the Northerners, and Veterans of the Confederacy, the Southerners, at the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg in 1913
Had the Battle of Gettysburg ended otherwise, we might today have had two separate states, the Northern States and the Confederacy. The Russian Empire, in the person of Alexander II, supported the Union and the legitimate President Lincoln from the very outset.
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Barron Trump and Alexander the Great
Barron Trump and Alexander the Great. What? Yes
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Dress codes and the steady taste of King Philip of Spain, who was dressed by Jaime Gallo
In one interview I was asked about my attitude to dress codes. In truth, mine is simple: irrespective of the whims of event organisers, I wear whatever I consider appropriate and whatever I happen to have to hand. Remember how Anna Wintour dressed for the recent Met Gala? In a
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Lithograph "To Lenin", by the artists from the Chuvash ASSR Dmitry Alekseyevich Minkov (1908–1998) and Mikhail Vasilyevich Romanov (1906–?)
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Elderly Charlie Chaplin and his wife Oona, 35 years his junior
Elderly Charlie Chaplin and his wife Oona, 35 years his junior. With a little dog
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In the 1980s Margaret Thatcher appeared on a Saturday-morning music show, plainly trying to get in touch with youth culture
In the 1980s Margaret Thatcher appeared on a Saturday-morning music show, plainly trying to get in touch with youth culture. She listened to a performance by a contemporary band and said they had “a good beat”. True, nobody has heard of that band since
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Raindrops on glass and a paved courtyard beside a palace facade
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Berlin's “Man in a Golden Helmet” ceased to be regarded as a Rembrandt in 1984
In 1984 experts questioned the attribution of Rembrandt's Man in a Golden Helmet in the collection of the Berlin Art Gallery. Is it too much like Rembrandt to be Rembrandt? The work had been ascribed to Rembrandt for many years, until a special Dutch commission for establishing the
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Cherubina de Gabriac’s 1928 poem about longing far from the Neva
Listen to the dream of night, do not miss the falling star… along my streets, an Invisible Shade, I shall walk behind you… Look (I pine so in the desert far from beloved places…): is the water in the Neva still blue? Has the cross not yet been taken from