From the news of the list of the twenty largest economies in the world: Spain is still on it, China has still not overtaken the USA, though for years we have been promised that this is about to happen (the gap, incidentally, is huge), but the gap between

From the news of the list of the twenty largest economies in the world: Spain is still on it, China has still not overtaken the USA, though for years we have been promised that this is about to happen (the gap, incidentally, is huge), but the gap between second and third is more striking still. Great Britain could have taken 3rd place, had it managed to consolidate its efforts. Poland has joined the club: it is quietly climbing the ladder and winning its place among the great powers, and it is time for many to revise their view of Eastern Europe. Although India's population is 16 times larger, India's economy is still smaller than Germany's. Even more shocking is the gap between China and India, despite their roughly equal populations.

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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

From the news of the list of the twenty largest economies in the world: Spain is still on it, China has still not overtaken the USA, though for years we have been promised that this is about to happen (the gap, incidentally, is huge), but the gap between

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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

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