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Alexandr Radayev
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Still Waiting for a Sitcom About This Woman
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Wheeled gun and equipment boxes on pack saddles, archival photograph
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Horses in the service of the French army, 1890s: not only draught animals for guns of various kinds, but also horses whose harness was fitted with firearms
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The United States' purchase of Louisiana from France in 1803 for 15 million dollars
The 1803 treaty for the purchase of Louisiana, France's North American possessions, signed by the third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson originally wanted to buy only New Orleans from the French, in order to ease trade and logistics thanks to the port of New Orleans.
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A post-Soviet person, raised in a standard-issue flat behind an iron door with three locks, itself set over a wooden door upholstered in leatherette, with a bolt, a latch and a little hook, cannot grasp the true horror of American films, in which the most
A post-Soviet person, raised in a standard-issue flat behind an iron door with three locks, itself set over a wooden door upholstered in leatherette, with a bolt, a latch and a little hook, cannot grasp the true horror of American films, in which the most terrifying things (a
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When you want to be certain that a person has truly recognised their mistake
Elizabeth II watches forensic science students of Berkshire College gather evidence at a simulated crime scene
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Saint Sebastian, Raphael, before 1504
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Iron shaped like a rooster with an open beak and a wooden handle
The Iron: Don't worry, I won't tell a soul, a secret is a secret. The same iron, a moment later:
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The carpet “Olympiad” of 1979 by Arif Gandi oglu Ismailov
"Olympiad" carpet, 1979. Designed by Arif Gandi ogly Ismailov
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And in front of the Manege, a train is parked
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