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Warwick Davis and his roles in Harry Potter. I cannot explain it by anything other than the producers' keen desire to save a great deal of money on hiring actors of short stature. This curiosity is to some extent played upon in the comedy series about Davis's
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Lapus and Zaya. So your cloying pet names for one another are officially classic, and have been since 1924. LAPUS AND ZAYA!
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A youth beheaded for his faith in Christ rose after the execution, picked up his own head and walked to the place of his future burial
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📌 Closing soon: the exhibition “Not Only Bruegel. Sixteenth-Century Netherlandish Prints from the Collections of Moscow and Saint Petersburg” at the Pushkin Museum, until 9 November 📌 Closing soon: the exhibition “Masterpieces of Kazakhstan's Art” at the New Tretyakov Gallery, until 23 November 📌 The exhibition “Fundamental Lexicon. Contemporary Art
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Art · People
The Werewolf. Honoured Artist of Russia Boris Zabirokhin
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All Saints' Day, Vasily Kandinsky, 1911. Despite the similarity of name, the Orthodox feast glorifying All Saints, and sanctity itself, has no cultural kinship with Halloween, which is also styled All Saints' Day. On All Saints' Day it is of course the custom to remember in prayer
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For those who skipped a great many lessons, let me remind you that we began October with an introductory course in alchemy, and then spoke. 📌 about works of art stolen by the Nazis 📌 about the fate of Pompeii after the eruption of Vesuvius 📌 about why one should not refuse Donald