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Alexandr Radayev
Architecture · Paris · People
General Pierre Dominil, who lost a leg at Wagram, defended Vincennes Castle
Major Pierre Dominil lost a leg at the Battle of Wagram and earned the nickname "Wooden Leg". In 1812, by then a brigadier general, he became governor of the Château de Vincennes: and after the capture of Paris by the Allies, he held out to the last and
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Invalids, Anatoly Galaktionovich Petritsky, 1924
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Two-Coloured Marble Statue of Isis, 1st–2nd Centuries AD
London · Monarchies · Observations · Society · Pop Culture
Wristbands for the farewell to Queen Elizabeth are sold on eBay from 200 pounds
Wristbands for bidding farewell to Queen Elizabeth go on sale at eBay for fabulous sums, from £200 to tens of thousands of pounds. The wristbands come in different colours, as they were issued on different days. The administration of the marketplace promised to remove all these listings, though it is
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To Read Until the Very Day of Judgement Is Not the Worst of Fates
Science · Society · People
Gennady Yakovlevich Krasnikov, a researcher of microelectronic technologies, very-large-scale integrated circuits and complex semiconductor structures with controllable and stable electrophysical…, has been elected the new President of the Russian Academy
Books · Education · People · Humour
Announcer Ilya Prudovsky wrote a poem for the 80th birthday of Ditmar Rosenthal
First it was great Dal, now great is Rosenthal. Yes, the language, as if out of spite, was clearly unlucky with Russians. There was Baudouin de Courtenay, and beside him, back to back, in Berlin Vasmer published long ago an etymological dictionary. Then came Barkhudaryan, his countryman Hovhannisyan. Every non-
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The Temple of Poseidon at Sounion, by the French Artist Paul Bret
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Seated Ivan the Terrible in a Sketch by Viktor Vasnetsov
Ivan the Terrible. Sketch by Viktor Vasnetsov
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Spectators: the Triple Funerary Monument of the Fettiplace Family in Swinbrook Church, Oxfordshire
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