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Alexandr Radayev
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1 January
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According to Danilevsky, the Greeks' morality lay in their sense of measure
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I wish everyone a sense of proportion in the new year
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Metropolitan Platon of Moscow on the New Year in his 1766 sermon
The continuation of time is the continuation of God's goodness to us. This divine benefaction we must glorify at this hour. For now we enter the doors of the new year. The new year is, for everyone, a propitious occasion for new endeavours and new merits, a blessed
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In the New Year of 1766 the admirable orator and thinker Platon, Metropolitan of Moscow, delivered in the court church a Sermon before Catherine II and the heir Pavel Petrovich on the essence and nature of time
In the New Year of 1766 the admirable orator and thinker Platon, Metropolitan of Moscow, delivered in the court church a Sermon before Catherine II and the heir Pavel Petrovich on the essence and nature of time. The address is rich and beautiful; I shall quote a few passages, and
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The American order of writing dates as a legacy of the British colonial period
If We Write It the American Way, Today Is 123123. Writing the date back to front, with the month ahead of the day, is no original American invention: it is a relic of an old colonial custom left over from the days of British rule. The British themselves abandoned such
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Alexandre Dumas and his reply to a street ruffian who taunted him over his ancestry
Even after he had written The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas was still reproached with his origins. The son of a general who had single-handedly faced down whole regiments was nonetheless the great-grandson of slaves. Once a street ruffian tried to humiliate Dumas,
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What Will My Songs Be About on These Distant Shores?
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The Elephant Calf Bought by Ronald Reagan for a Party Conference
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Two people walk a leopard and a dog on leashes in a park
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