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On the eve of the 78th Cannes Film Festival, Brigitte Bardot, who made her debut there in 1953, 72 years ago, gave an interview to French television. Brigitte rarely meets journalists and invariably keeps her own distinctive outlook, which is why she is always worth listening to. On French TV
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Ahead of the conclave, researchers at Milan's Bocconi University analysed cardinals' social-media data to determine which relational structures improve the chances of winning a papal election. Giuseppe Soda, Professor at Bocconi University: "Our starting point is simple. Even in the Church, as in any human
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James Tissot, 1894 Angels came and ministered unto him. Gospel of Matthew 4:11
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What does the sudden appearance in circulation of five-rouble notes dated 1997, yet perfectly new, tell us? When I first saw one, I thought it a collector's rarity, but at the till they told me that five-rouble notes had become plentiful. upd a obscurantist from among
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The members of the Council of Paris await the next post in Parnassian Mockingbird about the dreadful Mayor Anne Hidalgo. And so it goes every day, for a mere 4283 euros a month
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A map of the world according to the government of Brazil. Indeed, why not?
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Stinking Democrats, Cunning Communists, Screeching Liberals, Idiots, Suicides and Thieves. The exceptions are Yeltsin and, perhaps, Gaidar. The poet Inna Lisnyanskaya on the events of October 1993, in a letter to her daughter