Men playing ball in the courtyard of the Fulda seminary, the oldest school in Germany, founded in the monastery of Fulda in the 8th century, that is, more than 1,200 years ago

Men playing ball in the courtyard of the Fulda seminary, the oldest school in Germany, founded in the monastery of Fulda in the 8th century, that is, more than 1,200 years ago. Drawing from an album amicorum of the early 17th century

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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

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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

Men playing ball in the courtyard of the Fulda seminary, the oldest school in Germany, founded in the monastery of Fulda in the 8th century, that is, more than 1,200 years ago

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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