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In September, the World's First Public Railway Turns 200. On 27 September 1825, the locomotive Locomotion No. 1, designed by George Stephenson, drew a train along the Stockton and Darlington line in the north-east of England. The name Locomotion soon became a common noun: the word "
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Vatican communications team says it has blocked hundreds of accounts posting AI-generated deepfakes since the start of Pope Leo XIV's pontificate. Some of the videos gather hundreds of thousands of views. Recently, for example, a fake 25-minute video of Pope Leo XIV commenting on the murder
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Against a backdrop of a 16.5% decline in global sales, the smallest fall was recorded in the United States, where sales totalled 2.2 billion dollars, only 1% lower than in the same period of 2024. China comes second after the United States, where sales fell by 26% compared
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The beautiful frescoes of Mikhail Nesterov in the Church of Alexander Nevsky at Abastumani in Georgia. This is a unique case: the entire interior of the church was painted in fresco by Nesterov himself, without the help of other artists: 56 compositions in 8 years. Nesterov's biography in
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Photographs taken at Maximilian Voloshin's dacha in Koktebel, Crimea, in 1911. Voloshin began living in Koktebel in 1907: his mother, Elena Ottobaldovna Kirienko-Voloshina, whom the poet and his friends called "Pra", from the word for "foremother", bought a plot of land here and
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Who would have thought Lake Titicaca was quite so high! It turns out to stand at 3,812 metres above sea level. Baikal lies at an altitude of 455 metres. Lake Superior, of the American Great Lakes system, lies at 183 metres
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Richard II Presented to the Virgin and Child by His Patron Saint John the Baptist and Saints Edward and Edmund. otherwise known as the Wilton Diptych, made of two small panels joined by hinges and painted on both sides. On the front, at left, we see the young King Richard
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