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Such a Handsome Fellow
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Grandma Moses began painting after the age of 70 and became a renowned American artist
Anna Mary Robertson Moses, better known as Grandma Moses, was a self-taught American artist and one of the leading representatives of primitivism. Anna began to paint when she was already over 70. Almost all her life she worked on farms in the states of New York and Virginia. A
Faith · Society · People · Rome
Pope Leo XIV: Pride Lies at the Root of Political Conflicts
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Katya Kazakina of Artnet News wins the Front Page Award for the second time
Leningrad-born journalist Katya Kazakina has been awarded, for the second time, the prestigious Front Page Award for women in journalism, presented by the New York Newswomen's Club. Kazakina is a senior reporter at Artnet News, where she writes the popular weekly column The Art Detective, covering the
Geography · Observations · Society · Humour
Calculating possible payments to Greenlanders in a hypothetical US purchase of Greenland
On the one hand, it is remarkable to see the comic cliché of Americans believing they can buy anything on earth made flesh in the hypothetical purchase of Greenland. On the other, however sociopathic it may look, who can seriously suppose that people would be ready to sell their homeland
Geography · Observations · Society
The idea of buying Greenland and US territorial acquisitions from 1803 to 1867
Why does the plot of acquiring Greenland not look all that fantastical? One need only recall the history of the United States and its bargain purchases. In 1803 Louisiana was bought from France for roughly 15 million dollars. As a result, its territories went, wholly or in part, to form:
Geography · Society
Greenland's population of 56,831 and the possible cost of the “project” in millions and billions of dollars
The USA, that is to say, in all likelihood, Donald Trump, is considering paying each resident of Greenland between $10,000 and $100,000 in return for backing secession from Denmark. The current population of Greenland is about 56,831. The cost of the "project" could therefore range
NB! · Archive · Architecture · Heritage · Saint Petersburg
The Restoration of the Painted Drum of the Dome of Saint Isaac's Cathedral, 1954 to 1963
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Saltykov-Shchedrin in a letter of 1 October 1858 on the powerlessness of bureaucracy
Here I am in utter distress, for I am surrounded by illiterate and senseless people and must work alone for all of them and set right what a century of chicanery has fouled… With each passing day I grow more and more convinced that bureaucracy is impotent… Saltykov-Shchedrin in
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Hundreds of Jews and Jewesses were killed or wounded
The first mentions of Chernobyl in the Western press are connected with pogroms: March 1919, hundreds of Jews killed in Ukraine, in Berdichev, Zhitomir, Chernobyl, Ovruch, Belaya Tserkov, Letichev, Elisavetgrad, Vasilkov and other places.
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Macron did not appear at Bardot's funeral in Saint-Tropez, attended by Marine Le Pen
Yesterday the world bade farewell to Brigitte Bardot: the 91-year-old actress was laid to rest in a cemetery overlooking the Mediterranean, where her parents are also buried. Macron did not appear at the farewell ceremony, the funeral or the official requiem mass. The Bardot family did not respond
Archive · Books · Moscow · Humour
In one place it is said that a landowner was ruined by doing up his house in Moscow in the fashionable taste
“But the sovereign himself is building a palace in Moscow!” said the censor. Gogol on the censorship of Dead Souls, 1842