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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry furious over new scene from Family Guy in which they sit by a swimming pool complaining that they must do yet another sponsored social media post for $250,000
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Is Everyone Ready for the Third Season of The White Lotus Without Tanya McQuoid?
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A familiar face in the painting "The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin" by Jan van Eyck, 1435
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Pushkin on the body of the murdered Griboyedov taken to Tiflis and their last meeting
"Two oxen, yoked to a cart, were climbing a steep road. Several Georgians accompanied the cart. "Where are you from?" I asked them. "From Tehran." "What are you carrying?" "Griboyedov." It was the body of the murdered Griboyedov, which was being
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Griboyedov tells Pushkin about the Persians on the eve of his last journey to Tehran
You do not yet know these people: you will see that it will come to knives. Alexander Sergeyevich Griboyedov to Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, on the Persians, on the eve of his last journey to Tehran
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Large sheets with black images laid out on the steps of Sacré-Cœur
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Ernest Pignon-Ernest and his socially engaged street art in France since the 1960s
Works by the French artist Ernest Pignon-Ernest, a member, incidentally, of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts in the painting section. Pignon-Ernest is considered one of the founders of street art in France. Since the 1960s he has placed his works in the urban setting, among small architectural
Archaeology · Architecture · Heritage · Rome
Theatre of Marcellus in Rome, topped with an Orsini family palace in the 16th century
One of the partially surviving ancient stone theatres of Rome: begun under Julius Caesar and opened under Octavian Augustus, destroyed in 64 and surmounted in the 16th century with residential storeys, the Theatre of Marcellus was excavated and restored in the 1930s. The living quarters above the old arcades were
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A kitten on old engravings with a plan of Moscow and costumes of the peoples of Russia
There is the post of assistant to a professor, and there is the assisted professor; both are abbreviated simply as asst. prof. In this case, of course, we are dealing with the second
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"A stout Mordvin woman in a chemise mottled at the shoulders, sleeves and hem with red wool, as though it had been inscribed in blood; her bosom weighed down with silver coins of various sizes in several rows; in her ears a ball of swan's down apiece, and
"A stout Mordvin woman in a chemise mottled at the shoulders, sleeves and hem with red wool, as though it had been inscribed in blood; her bosom weighed down with silver coins of various sizes in several rows; in her ears a ball of swan's down apiece,