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London, Paris, Poland, Banana
The singer Irakli would have done better to sing about Kiribati
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Fried potatoes of English cuisine in a painting by Eric Satchwell
Tonight's supper is fried potatoes. Thanks to Eric Satchwell (1926-2012), it is the finest dish in English cuisine
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The French team at the opening of the Montreal Olympics in 1976 and the delegation of the Beauxbatons Academy at the Triwizard Tournament in Hogwarts
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Council of Trent called a foundation in caption to photo of clergy
Remember this! The Council of Trent is the foundation.
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A Medal Bearing the Likeness of the Man Who Criticised Michelangelo for the Nudity in His Works
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The myth of the cat that ate Thomas Hardy's heart, disputed by his biographers
The Cat That Took the Poet's Heart. One of the strangest stories of burial is attributed to the funeral of the English poet Thomas Hardy in 1928. Hardy lived to the age of 87. His body was cremated and the ashes interred in Poets' Corner in Westminster
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Traits of Hermes-Mercury, Odin and a solar deity in the figure of Gandalf
Young Tolkien in the Costume of Hermes. And four hobbits in plain white togas beside him. It is interesting to look at Gandalf through the prism of the antique pantheon. In part he may be an embodiment of Hermes-Mercury. First, as a messenger of the gods; second, as a
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Dmitry Minayev in 1881 on a homeland turned into one colossal Tashkent
Little by little, backward and back, We shall come to such a road That they will drive us all, like calves, Beyond the Ural ridge, little by little. We shall raise ourselves a monument, Higher and fairer than all monuments, And into one colossal Tashkent Our fatherland will be turned
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The same climatic picture viewed across a gap of 30 years
The same climatic picture viewed across a gap of 30 years. What was accepted as the norm in 1995 was deemed, in 2024, a heat dangerous to health.
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The Last Supper in the Chinese Iconographic Tradition
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