"I feel more attached to my dog than to any human being", from the notes of the twenty-year-old Gustave Flaubert, who turns two hundred today
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A literacy circle for housewives in a 1931 photograph from the photo-essay "24 Hours in the Life of the Filippov Family"
Something tells me, on this day of splendid quotations from presidents, that in response to the call not to allow society to be divided into a thinking intellectual elite and people who will find themselves in the second or third rank in their level of intellectual development zealous executors, should
The Voronezh meme recurs in Trump's remarks on Iran and Los Angeles
The Voronezh meme finds a new incarnation, this time in a country of the First World
Pope Leo XIV on the courage to do good, to forgive and to enter into dialogue
Our time needs men and women who have the courage to do good, even when it involves sacrifice. Draw near to those who are lonely, support the weary and seek out those who have lost their way. Have the courage to forgive, to begin anew and to enter into dialogue.
Orientalist Grigory Kozakov with relatives and children at a picnic near the village of Zhikharevka in 1903
The Orientalist Grigory Alexandrovich Kozakov, surrounded by his relatives, his daughter-in-law Countess Anna Nikolayevna Tolstaya, the children and their tutor, at a picnic near the village of Zhikharevka in 1903