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I got for my labour only a goitre, a sickness (So muddy water bloats the cats, A common plague in parts of Lombardy!) And my chin wedged into my belly; My chest like that of the harpies; my skull, to spite me, Crept up to my hump; and my beard bristles on

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I got for my labour only a goitre, a sickness (So muddy water bloats the cats, A common plague in parts of Lombardy!) And my chin wedged into my belly; My chest like that of the harpies; my skull, to spite me, Crept up to my hump; and my beard bristles on

I got for my labour only a goitre, a sickness (So muddy water bloats the cats, A common plague in parts of Lombardy!) And my chin wedged into my belly; My chest like that of the harpies; my skull, to spite me, Crept up to my hump; and my beard

By Alexandr Radayev
To mark Cosmonautics Day, here is a photograph of James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford (1847-1913), President of the Royal Astronomical Society, dressed in heraldic regalia for the coronation of King George V in 1911

Aristocracy · Archive · Monarchies · Science · People

To mark Cosmonautics Day, here is a photograph of James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford (1847-1913), President of the Royal Astronomical Society, dressed in heraldic regalia for the coronation of King George V in 1911

In the intervals of his aristocratic existence, this imposing old gentleman assembled one of the largest libraries of rare books in England, organised expeditions to the East to observe solar eclipses and the transit of Venus, built a private observatory, patronised astronomers, became a sponsor of the founding of the

By Alexandr Radayev
When I am asked what I think of a black Anne Boleyn, a Little Mermaid or a Duncan MacLeod, I remember that Asta Nielsen played Hamlet, and even in 1921 that was not a problem, so I see no reason to fret that people of different ethnic and racial identitie

Cinema · Observations · Pop Culture

When I am asked what I think of a black Anne Boleyn, a Little Mermaid or a Duncan MacLeod, I remember that Asta Nielsen played Hamlet, and even in 1921 that was not a problem, so I see no reason to fret that people of different ethnic and racial identitie

When I am asked what I think of a black Anne Boleyn, a Little Mermaid or a Duncan MacLeod, I remember that Asta Nielsen played Hamlet, and even in 1921 that was not a problem, so I see no reason to fret that people of different ethnic and racial identities

By Alexandr Radayev
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