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The Louvre has suspended indefinitely the competition for the museum's expansion project, announced in June 2025. The decision was taken less than a week before the jury was due to vote on the winner. The Louvre - Nouvelle Renaissance project, announced by Macron in January 2025, was meant to
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Let the deaf heavyweight of History Preen and boast of his record, — The secret is out: in this proud world There are loud deeds, but no miracles. We dreamed of foam, of singing, of propylaea And of the mysterious rising of solemn crowds, But in the morning the usual schemes
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The house in Odessa where Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin lived. The Hotel du Nord stood here, and Pushkin stayed in it for a month in the summer of 1823. The street was then called Italianskaya; in 1880 it was renamed Pushkinskaya. In 1959 a Literary Memorial Museum was opened here
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A street named after Vladimir Etush has appeared in Moscow. It runs from Lobachevsky Street to Vasily Lanovoy Street
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On 29 July 1955 American scientists announced their intention to launch the first artificial satellite of the Earth within the next two years. On 2 August, at the Sixth Congress of the International Astronautical Federation in Copenhagen, Academician Sedov promised that the USSR would launch an Earth satellite before the
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The Greek shipping magnate Stavros Niarchos in the Red Salon of his Paris residence, the Hôtel de Chanaleilles, beneath the Pietà (c. 1581) by Doménikos Theotokópoulos, El Greco, one of the principal treasures of his own collection
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It turns out that Sir Christopher Lee, the actor who brought Saruman to life in Peter Jackson's film trilogy, was descended on his mother's side from the noble Italian house of Carandini. This allowed Christopher Lee to trace his lineage directly back to Charlemagne, Emperor of
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In 2007 Helen Mirren, born Elena Lydia Vasilyevna Mironova, visited Russia and found her cousins and other relatives. Her grandmother was Countess Lydia Andreyevna Kamenskaya, her grandfather Colonel Pyotr Vasilyevich Mironov. Helen's father arrived in Great Britain at the age of two. In Russia her grandfather had left