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Alexandr Radayev
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The more time you have to complete a task, the more time it will take
Parkinson's Law
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A Selfie Taken by Nicholas II
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François Truffaut's 1966 book on Hitchcock, made up of interviews with the director, became the model of its genre and has been reissued more than once, each time with a most striking cover
Books · Observations · Society · Humour
Prince Andrey and Speransky on the Commission for Drafting Laws and Lawmaking Today
The Commission on Laws has existed for a hundred and fifty years, cost millions and accomplished nothing. Do you remember when Prince Andrei did not wish to join the commission for the drafting of laws, pleading that it required a legal education, which he did not possess? And Speransky, who
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Meeting Anubis on the Underground Is a Great Stroke of Luck
Art · Museums · Society · Saint Petersburg
Lukian Popov depicted army conscription during the Russo-Japanese War
Mobilised (Taken), 1904. Conscription into the army during the Russo-Japanese War. Lukian Vasilyevich Popov. Collection of the State Russian Museum
NB! · In the Press · London · Monarchies · Humour
In 1992 the Daily Mail published police-made photofits of how Princes William and Harry might look in their early thirties
In 1992 the Daily Mail published police-made photofits of how Princes William and Harry might look in their early thirties. William, for some reason, is the spitting image of Boris Johnson, while Harry is a bleached Ellen DeGeneres
Architecture · Faith · Heritage
Whale decoration on Catholic pulpits in Poland and Czechia and the story of Jonah
A Pulpit in the Form of a Whale in the Eighteenth-Century Polish Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Duszniki-Zdrój. Such a decoration for a pulpit is highly unusual in Catholic churches, and is found chiefly in Poland and Bohemia. The image of the whale evidently alludes to
Faith · Observations · Mores · Society
Pope Francis voices concern over priests and nuns viewing pornography online
Pope Francis has expressed concern that many priests and nuns use the internet to watch pornography. The Pontiff urged his brothers and sisters to be more wary of diabolical temptation. The Catechism of the Catholic Church defines, in so many words, the exploitation of sexual images as an offence against
Archive · Monarchies · Society · Saint Petersburg
Executive Committee resolves to arrest Nicholas Romanov and prevent his departure for England
Resolution of the Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet of 9 (22) March 1917:. “In view of information received that the Provisional Government has granted Nicholas Romanov the opportunity to leave for England, it has been resolved to declare forthwith to the Provisional Government the inflexible will of the Executive
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