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Henry Ford Dismissed 800 Workers for Missing Work on Orthodox Christmas in 1914
In 1914 Henry Ford dismissed some 800 workers who failed to report for work on 7 January, when the Orthodox Church celebrates the Nativity of Christ. At that time this amounted to roughly 8% of all his workforce. Ford issued an order stating that if these men had chosen America
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An Angel Looks In at the Window
An angel looks in at the window. The Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos. Fresco in the Scrovegni Chapel, Giotto di Bondone, 1305
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Crozier head with the Archangel Michael and the dragon, 1220s–1230s, Limoges
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Editors debated how to describe the Rothschilds' ethnicity and settled on Ashkenazi Jews
Wikipedia's article on the Rothschilds: "Jewish family" replaced with "European family" The article's edit history contains a lively discussion among editors about why the Rothschilds suddenly became a family with a "European background" instead of a "Jewish" one,
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“The Adoration of the Magi”, by the sixteenth-century Flemish painter Jan Mostaert, who worked at the court of Margaret of Austria in the Southern Netherlands
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Catherine II twice taken out of the palace in the first days after the overthrow of Peter III
I love the French language for its elegance. How do you like this subtle, refined characterisation of Catherine the Great: "usurpatrice"? It is known that in the first days after the overthrow of Peter III, Catherine II slept badly; she was even twice got out of bed and
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Merry Christmas to all! ❤️
Illustration from the Magnificent Hours of Notre-Dame, 1378/80.
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There are many witty recollections of the brilliant statesman, scholar and courtier of the age of Peter III and Catherine II, Count Nikita Ivanovich Panin, but the most remarkable is when Panin confessed that for four months he had not answered an urgent
There are many witty recollections of the brilliant statesman, scholar and courtier of the age of Peter III and Catherine II, Count Nikita Ivanovich Panin, but the most remarkable is when Panin confessed that for four months he had not answered an urgent dispatch from Field Marshal Rumyantsev, who was
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Owl in a wicker basket held by a figure in red: painting detail
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The Conjuror, Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1515/20
The game of thimbles has been known since the most ancient times and over the millennia has scarcely changed, gathering around it even today people who seem positively glad to be deceived and parted from their money. Only the thimbles themselves change: in ancient India cups were used, in ancient
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