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Hubble Telescope Data Point to a Dwarf Galaxy Merging With the Young Milky Way
It turns out that our home galaxy, the Milky Way, grew to its present size partly by swallowing smaller galaxies. New data from the Hubble telescope offer compelling evidence of a dwarf galaxy merging with the young Milky Way at its very earliest stages
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No Date Yet for Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner's Visit to Russia
But there is one for Kanye West
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Two Soviet soldiers on the steps of a building in a photograph by Yevgeny Khaldei, May 1945
Soviet Soldiers on the Steps of the Reich Chancellery. Photograph by Yevgeny Khaldei, May 1945
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Introducing the ambassadors of Norway to Estonia and of Poland to the Netherlands
Meet the ambassadors of Norway to Estonia and of Poland to the Netherlands. Life, Netflix style
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Oh, You Have Rather Outstayed Your Welcome
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Chopping cabbage in Orenburg Governorate in the 1900s
Chopping the Cabbage. Orenburg Governorate, 1900s
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The Mona Lisa Returns to the Louvre from Wartime Evacuation
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Tuition fees in Soviet upper secondary schools and universities abolished from 1 September 1956
Fees for study in the upper forms of secondary schools, in specialised secondary institutions and in the higher educational establishments of the USSR were abolished only from 1 September 1956. My grandmother always used to tell how hard it was for her parents to pay for her schooling, and the
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Moscow – Leningrad: Something Different
The Seventies are arranged in a rather unusual way in Soviet culture. The Thaw was over, the euphoria had evaporated, and it became clear to certain people that print runs in the millions and vast auditoriums no longer loomed on the horizon, while large exhibitions would be of whatever format
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Nicholas II in Kostroma in 1913 during the journey for the Romanov tercentenary
The People of Kostroma Greet the Imperial Family in May 1913. In the 23 years of his reign Nicholas II did not travel much about Russia, Crimea, Finland and the hunting at Spała excepted. His meetings with the people were few. The celebration of the tercentenary of the ruling house
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