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This year's text for the "Total Dictation" will be written by the author Marina Moskvina
This year's text for the "Total Dictation" will be written by the author Marina Moskvina. I am scarcely acquainted with her work, but I remembered a charming story that contained this sentence: "Every Saturday I hoped that Dad would stay at home, that we would
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In 1980 Dalí sent Yoko Ono a dry blade of grass for 10,000 dollars instead of a hair
How Salvador Dalí Sold Yoko Ono a Blade of Grass for $10,000. Some episodes from the life of Salvador Dalí, for all their plausibility, may seem entirely apocryphal: a kind of definition of Surrealism itself. Yoko Ono and Salvador Dalí first met in 1969, when Ono and John Lennon
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Raphael's portrait of Baldassare Castiglione from the Mazarin collection in the Louvre
Portrait of the Italian Renaissance writer and diplomat Baldassare Castiglione (1478–1529), known as the author of The Book of the Courtier, which describes the court of Urbino in the form of a manual of etiquette. Castiglione gives particular attention to moderation and courtesy, regarding them as proof of civilisation.
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Winged warrior figure with sword and halo in an engraving style
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In São Paulo, Construction Has Begun on a 70-Metre Statue of Saint Michael the Archangel, Meant to Stand Twice as Tall as Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro and to Become the Tallest Catholic Statue in the World
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The Black Books of Hours of the Late Fifteenth Century: the Pride of the Masters of Bruges
The Black Books of Hours of the late fifteenth century are the pride of the masters of Bruges. The principal patron of these masterpieces was the Burgundian court. Only a handful of books executed in this technique have survived to our day. To obtain the black pages, the parchment was
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Grand Duchesses Anastasia, Olga, Maria and Tatiana and Grand Duke Alexei Romanov photographed with their heads shaved after measles, June 1917
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Marble maps charting the territorial growth of the Roman Empire, set up under Benito Mussolini on the walls of the Basilica of Maxentius, the last building of imperial Rome
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Vasily Stalin in His Youth
It must be said that Gela Meskhi, who played the lead in the film "Son of the Father of Nations", bears a certain resemblance to him
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Saint John of the Cross, a Spanish Carmelite monk, in a painting
Seek in reading, and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer, and it will be opened to you in contemplation. The Spanish Carmelite friar Saint John of the Cross
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