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Following last year's presidential decree on the payment of Presidential postgraduate scholarships to 2,000 recipients in the amount of 75,000 roubles, a government resolution has been issued "on the rules for awarding and paying scholarships of the Presi. Candidates for the scholarships are citizens of
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Let us remember. The marks of the male character in the eighteenth century: a large head, eyes brown, black-and-yellow or blue and somewhat sunken, a broad belly, long strides and a quiet movement of the body. And above all: men are by disposition diligent, curious, constant, brave, magnanimous
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The German medieval town of Nördlingen is built in the crater of a meteorite that fell 15 million years ago and left a mark 25 km in diameter. The walls of all the town's buildings are filled with micro-diamonds: the rock from which the local terrain is
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Marshal Joachim Murat with his mother. The King of Naples was the youngest of twelve children in the family of a prosperous innkeeper who managed Talleyrand's estates. He himself had four children by Napoleon's sister Caroline
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"My painting does not depict an event, it is an event" - Yevgeny Mikhnov-Voitenko. The exhibition "Zverev/Mikhnov-Voitenko. A Second Multiplied by Eternity" at the AZ Museum. When you come to the exhibition, be sure to watch the film about the artist on the 3rd
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Found a copy of Vogue Hommes from November 1994 and spotted a brilliant advertisement on the back cover for Chanel's "Égoïste Platinum". The image is a still from a 30-second film of the same year by the scandalous French photographer Jean-Paul Goude, set to
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What appears to be depicted is the apparition to Joan of Arc of the Archangel Michael, Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret, who told the girl that it was she who was destined to lift the siege of Orléans and drive out the invaders.
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It turns out that Théoden of Rohan also found time to captain the Titanic. The question "where was Gondor when we needed help?" acquires a new ring