A family tree showing that Queen Elizabeth II traces her descent from the progenitor of the 12 tribes of Israel, the third Old Testament patriarch Jacob, called Israel

A family tree showing that Queen Elizabeth II traces her descent from the progenitor of the 12 tribes of Israel, the third Old Testament patriarch Jacob, called Israel. Moreover, she is a descendant of Jacob-Israel and of his son Judah not only on her father's side but on her mother's as well. What is more, one of the genealogies even traces a kinship between Elizabeth and Jesus, to whom the Queen is linked also by the throne of David

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

A family tree showing that Queen Elizabeth II traces her descent from the progenitor of the 12 tribes of Israel, the third Old Testament patriarch Jacob, called Israel

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s