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Group portrait of the British royal family before the fountain at Osborne House, 24 May 1854. Besides Queen Victoria, her husband Prince Albert and her 68-year-old mother, Princess Victoria, the photograph shows, from left to right, the royal children: Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, Princess Alice, Prince Arthur,
Architecture · Books · London · Museums
The British Library building with a dome 45 metres in diameter, built in the 1850s. Or, to be precise, the circular Reading Room of the British Museum, with iron bookshelves running round its perimeter. The total length of the Reading Room's shelving is 25 kilometres. A considerable area
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Cornfield by Moonlight with the Evening Star. Samuel Palmer, 1830
Science · Education · Society
Following last year's presidential decree on the payment of Presidential postgraduate scholarships to 2,000 recipients in the amount of 75,000 roubles, a government resolution has been issued "on the rules for awarding and paying scholarships of the Presi. Candidates for the scholarships are citizens of
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Let us remember. The marks of the male character in the eighteenth century: a large head, eyes brown, black-and-yellow or blue and somewhat sunken, a broad belly, long strides and a quiet movement of the body. And above all: men are by disposition diligent, curious, constant, brave, magnanimous
Architecture · Geography · Science · Nature
The German medieval town of Nördlingen is built in the crater of a meteorite that fell 15 million years ago and left a mark 25 km in diameter. The walls of all the town's buildings are filled with micro-diamonds: the rock from which the local terrain is
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Marshal Joachim Murat with his mother. The King of Naples was the youngest of twelve children in the family of a prosperous innkeeper who managed Talleyrand's estates. He himself had four children by Napoleon's sister Caroline
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"My painting does not depict an event, it is an event" - Yevgeny Mikhnov-Voitenko. The exhibition "Zverev/Mikhnov-Voitenko. A Second Multiplied by Eternity" at the AZ Museum. When you come to the exhibition, be sure to watch the film about the artist on the 3rd