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Jacqueline Bisset: 77 today, a beauty she was and a beauty she remains
Jacqueline Bisset is 77 today, a beauty she was and a beauty she remains. Without fillers of any kind, or other such poultices.
Alexandr Radayev
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Found the right person to redirect the journalists of REN-TV who ask me about extraterrestrial cities in South America
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A bedtime reminder from the Prophet Ezekiel: do not forget to dress your dry bones in something decent, having not only clothed them with flesh but also endowed them with spirit
Archive · Faith · Monarchies · Society
Viktor Orbán, the Hungarian prime minister, known for his Euroscepticism and anti-migrant views, has presented Pope Francis with a copy of a letter of 1243 from King Béla IV of Hungary to Pope Innocent IV, in which the king informs the pope…
As is well known, Béla IV warned the pontiffs of the Mongol menace more than once; he wrote to Gregory IX as well, begging for help, but these pleas went unanswered. Nor did any European state respond to the call to defend Hungary, and in the end the whole country
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Two Plus Four Treaty on German unification signed on 12 September 1990
12 September 1990. Representatives of the FRG, the GDR, the USSR, the USA, France and Great Britain at the signing of the treaty on the unification of Germany. The so-called "Two Plus Four" treaty concerned the renunciation by the victor powers of the Second World War of
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The Holtermann Nugget, found in Australia in 1872, and its photomontage
When you are the largest gold nugget in the world and your only virtue is to shine. ps The so-called Holtermann Nugget was found in Australia in 1872. The 285-kilogram behemoth contained 83 kg of pure gold, which is to say that it was still 70% slag. The
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When Grandmother asks: why aren't you taking a marshmallow?
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Dear Liza Yankovskaya, there is such a word
Dear Liza Yankovskaya, there is such a word. Nepotism. Do google it at your leisure
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Tatyana Samoylova and Jayne Mansfield at Cannes in 1958
The East · Art · Moscow · Museums
Vyacheslav Akhunov’s installation “Mantras of the USSR”, developed by the artist since 1975
When Miziano and Krasteva, the curators of the exhibition "Service of Time" at Garage, wrote about the relation between spiritual labour and time, and about the different forms time may take in art, what did they have in mind, and how is it expressed in t. Step, say,
Architecture · Art · Moscow · Observations
Dobryninskaya Metro Station (formerly Serpukhovskaya) Is Adorned with 16 Refined Bas-Reliefs by Yelena Yanson-Manizer, Wife of the Author of the Bronze Sculptures at Ploshchad Revolyutsii
The marble reliefs depict, for the most part, agricultural workers. This is presumably meant to allude to the chief farming trade of each Soviet republic. Why 16 republics? There were 15 Union republics, the RSFSR included, from 1956 onwards; in 1950, however, when the station opened, there was still the
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A reader of novels in a painting by Antoine Wiertz in his museum in Brussels
If you want to feel lucky, simply know that in Brussels all the museums will reopen for the FIRST time since the start of the pandemic only on 15 October. To begin doubting your own luck, consider that this reader of novels in Antoine Wiertz's painting, from his