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Underwater photograph by Bob Frame for Premier Magazine, 1998
Why didn't Brendan Fraser play the Amphibian Man? Photo for Premier Magazine, 1998, Bob Frame
Alexandr Radayev
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American Curial Cardinal Raymond Burke Has Definitely Won the Battle of Images with Rihanna
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Exhibition “The Wondrous World of Cones” from botanist Nikolay Budishevsky’s collection in Vidnoye
The Children's Library No. 1 in the town of Vidnoye is hosting an exhibition, "The Wondrous World of Cones". From Tuesday to Sunday, visitors to the library can see more than 70 species, representing 4 families and 22 genera from North America, Europe, North Africa and
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Porcelain figure from the Wallendorf manufactory, made in the 1770s
Never Ask Saturn What He Had for Lunch. Porcelain figure, Wallendorf manufactory, 1770s.
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What One May Write About
It is forbidden to write: of the bureaucrat, Of the officers, of the soldier, Of the strike, of the movement, Of the clergy, of the ferment, Of the peasant, of the ministry, Of the execution, of the Cossacks' brutality, Of the police, of arrests, Of robberies, of manifestos! But
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Lunin's reaction to his 1826 sentence in Rosen's memoirs and Svistunov's rebuttal
The memoirs of the Decembrist Andrey Yevgenyevich Rosen contain a curious detail about the Decembrist Lunin. When Mikhail Sergeyevich Lunin, who had confessed under interrogation to proposing the murder of the Tsar on the road to Tsarskoye Selo, heard the sentence read out condemning him to penal servitude in perpetuity,
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The Mona Lisa in the New York Subway
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The Bishop of Rome renounces the See of Saint Peter as of 28 February 2013
On the morning of 11 February 2013, Pope Benedict XVI announced his forthcoming voluntary abdication from the papal throne. "...in today's world, subject to so many rapid changes and shaken by questions of deep relevance for the life of faith, in order to govern the barque of
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Women of the Imperial Family as Colonels-in-Chief of Russian Regiments
Empress Alexandra Feodorovna in the uniform of Her Majesty's Life-Guards Uhlan Regiment, of which she was Colonel-in-Chief from 1903. On their fourteenth birthdays, the emperor's daughters became colonels of one of the formations of the Russian Imperial Army. The eldest daughter of Nicholas
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The greatest tragedy has struck the peoples of Turkey and Syria on Monday 6 February
The greatest tragedy has struck the peoples of Turkey and Syria on Monday 6 February. Two earthquakes, of magnitude 7.8 and 7.7, have affected vast territories in both countries. It is hard to judge as a non-specialist, but the epicentre of the earthquakes seems to lie in
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When you wear your very best to the occasion, come what may
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