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Alexandr Radayev
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Well, I don't know, I wouldn't be overjoyed in Roosevelt's place
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When you read parish registers, the most agreeable thing is to find that in a given month there were no deaths
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The Route of Hannibal's Army during the Italian Campaign in 218 BC
The route of Hannibal's army during the Italian campaign in 218 BC. Just imagine: the elephants, too, made the whole journey
Books · Observations
Tolstoy on military genius in the reflections of Prince Andrei in “War and Peace”
And why does everyone say: a military genius? Is he a genius, the man who manages to order the rusks to be brought up in good time, and to tell this one to go to the right and that one to the left? It is only because military men are
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Mummers in masks in photographs taken in Scotland in 1932
Mummers used to be far more frightening. After all, between the modern person and the person of the early last century (these photographs were taken in Scotland in 1932) there lies a vast, unbridgeable chasm
NB! · Art · People
Sisters, by the Finnish-Swedish artist Elin Kleopatra Danielson-Gambogi, 1891
NB! · Art · Museums · New York
Aphrodite, 1st-2nd century AD
Aphrodite, 1st-2nd century AD. Roman sculpture. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Architecture · Faith · Monarchies
The Church of St Mary Magdalene at the royal residence of Sandringham is best known for its part in the life of the British royal family: Princess Eugenie and Charlotte were christened here, the royal family's Christmas services are held here, and memoria
The Church of St Mary Magdalene at the royal residence of Sandringham is best known for its part in the life of the British royal family: Princess Eugenie and Charlotte were christened here, the royal family's Christmas services are held here, and memorial tablets to departed members of
Faith · Society · Rome
The Catholic Church absolved the Jews of guilt for the Crucifixion of Christ only in 1965
On 28 October 1965 Pope Paul VI promulgated a document known as the "Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions". It repealed the declaration of the collective guilt of the entire Jewish people made by Pope Innocent III 760 years earlier
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Bivouac, John Singer Sargent, 1911
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