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Wind blows up the skirt of Queen Elizabeth II in a black-and-white photograph
Queen Elizabeth II. The wind lifts her skirt
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Arnold's finger method for multiplying by nine and the Chinese rule
An unexpected method of multiplication is offered by Arnold from "Hey Arnold!". The method works for multiplying by 9 and, it would seem, corresponds to an old Chinese rule of multiplying on the fingers: To obtain the result of multiplying by nine, hold both hands open and fold
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At least Khlestakov, for all his lying, still feared a little, in the midst of it, that they might take him by the scruff and throw him out
At least Khlestakov, for all his lying, still feared a little, in the midst of it, that they might take him by the scruff and throw him out. The Khlestakovs of today have no such fear and lie in perfect tranquillity. Everyone is calm, everyone is immeasurably vain, and one
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Photograph by Alexander Rodchenko, 1926, showing men seated at a table
Morning in the Flat of Vladimir Mayakovsky and the Briks in Gendrikov Lane. Photograph by Alexander Rodchenko, 1926
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In Kazakhstan, Przewalski's horse, described in 1879, will be called kerkulan and kertagy
Przewalski's Horse Renamed in Kazakhstan. Equus ferus przewalskii, made known to science and described by the Russian traveller and geographer Nikolai Przhevalsky in 1879, is henceforth to be called in Kazakhstan "Przewalski's horse – kerkulan, kertagy". I would suggest coming up with a name for
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The Lake School of poets, its name and Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey
A Peredelkino leaflet asks: who among us does not know the Lake Poets? Still, in case there are doubters, the poetic fellowship that emerged at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries was called the Lake School after the Lake District in the north-west of England, where the
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And what will the round-earthers make of this tortoise?
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And These People Will Be Judging Your Restaurant
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Paranormal experts suggest a werewolf portal in Cannock Chase forest in Staffordshire
Paranormal experts say that English woodland may hide a werewolf portal. Cannock Chase in Staffordshire is known for its eerie sightings of supernatural beings, including ghosts, werewolves and the notorious “black-eyed child”. Surprised? Not in the slightest. England is as much a hub of the uncanny as Bohemia and
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Statue of the Goddess Tyche as the Seleucid Capital in the Vatican Museums
I photographed this statue in the Vatican Museums some time ago because of its extraordinary crown. It turns out that this Roman copy of a Greek bronze depicts the goddess Tyche in the allegorical guise of the capital of the Seleucids. On her head sits a city wall, complete with
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