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Alexandr Radayev
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In Every Chat Room, Sooner or Later, the Question Arises: What the Hell Is It For?
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A Word Was Put In for Terekhov, Too
A word was put in for Terekhov, too. Incidentally, an interesting manual for anyone wishing to find out something about their ancestors
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And This Lovely Dialogue
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Found, for example, an amusing mention of a particular favourite of mine
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A thread on searching for noble roots, where experts meet hostile commenters
Got stuck yesterday in a wonderful thread devoted to the search for noble roots by various inquisitive citizens. It is splendid, in general, that there are places where representatives of noble associations, descendants of famous families, and historians, professional and amateur alike, gather to discuss the origins of this or
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Whitworth's machine for sweeping dung and dirt from the streets was invented in the nineteenth century: a cart whose wheels drove brushes mounted on a lifting mechanism
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Horse censuses of 1882 and 1888 on the number and quality of horses in Russia
I would like to share a curious article on horse-breeding in the nineteenth century from the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopaedic Dictionary:. Of the approximately 60,456,000 horses in the world, namely 32,253,400 in Europe, 4,125,400 in Asia, 656,000 in Africa, 20,909,000
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The Screaming Sculpture from Jacques Cœur's Palace in Bourges (15th Century) Bears a Striking Resemblance to the Figure in Munch's Painting
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Carriage of the Portuguese Ambassador to the Court of Pope Clement XI, Eighteenth Century, the Work of Italian Craftsmen
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John the Baptist and Jesus in the Wombs of Their Mothers
John the Baptist and Jesus in the wombs of their mothers. The subject is slightly alarming, isn't it? When, in the fifth form, I drew something similar, an infant in the belly with a cigarette, for a school wall newspaper on the dangers of smoking, I was censured
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Centaurs descend from King Ixion, who killed his father-in-law and, by the will of Zeus, lay with a cloud in the likeness of Hera, whence the centaurs were born
Centaurs descend from King Ixion, who killed his father-in-law and, by the will of Zeus, lay with a cloud in the likeness of Hera, whence the centaurs were born. So a scene of acquaintance without nude selfies is doubly allegorical