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Alexandr Radayev
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The Whole History of France in the Names of a Single Street
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Invitation to a thanksgiving service on the occasion of a company feast day, Moscow, 1913
Invitation to a thanksgiving service on the occasion of a company feast day, Moscow, 1913. The Russia we have lost
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King Frederik X of Denmark with His Grandfather, King Frederik IX of Denmark
Archive · Science · People
Nikolay Timofeyev-Resovsky in Germany, the death of his son and his sentence after the war
When in the 1940s the world-renowned scientist, an outstanding researcher of the problems of evolution and population genetics, Nikolay Vladimirovich Timofeev-Resovsky, head of the department of genetics and biophysics at the Brain Institute in Berlin-Buc. In fact, the scientist, who had been invited to Germany as early
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Gandalf, after promising to return with the first light of the sun on the fifth day
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Wall installation with a lamp and a relief medallion on a white wall
Faith · Interviews · Observations · People
Pope Francis tells Italian television he hopes hell is empty, calling it a personal view
Pope Francis says he likes to think that hell is empty. Yesterday evening, in an interview with Italian television, Francis said, verbatim: "What I am about to say is not dogma, but something personal: I like to think of hell as empty, and I hope that this is the
Architecture · Art · Monarchies · Observations
Statue of Robert the Bruce near the Bannockburn battlefield in Scotland with an unusual plinth
The floating statue of Robert the Bruce in Scotland. Not magic, but reality. A quite peerless pedestal, on which, in snowy weather, the horse appears to be quite detached from the ground. Bravo, the Scots! The monument stands by the site of the landmark Battle of Bannockburn. Bravo, the Scots,
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Denmark is now ruled by Frederik X, but Queen Margrethe II will keep her title, unlike Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, who became Princess Beatrix after her abdication
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Three Last Reigning European Queens: Margrethe II of Denmark, Elizabeth II of Great Britain, Beatrix of the Netherlands
Aristocracy · Monarchies
With Margrethe II's Abdication, the House of Glücksburg Will No Longer Be the Ruling Dynasty of Denmark
With Margrethe II's abdication, the House of Glücksburg will no longer be the ruling dynasty of Denmark. The dynasty had reigned in the country since 1863, since the accession of the queen's great-great-grandfather Christian IX. The Glücksburgs are succeeded by the Monpezat dynasty, or