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Speaking of the fashion for foreign cultural phenomena in Japan, one cannot fail to recall the quite peculiar feeling the Japanese have for Leo Tolstoy's novel "Resurrection" The Japanese writer Shimamura Hogetsu staged "Resurrection" at the Art Theatre in Tokyo in 1914. In the
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Happy Palm Sunday! The faithful break off branches of olive trees and palms to cast beneath the feet of Christ as he enters Jerusalem. This fresco belongs to the most famous series of works by Giotto di Bondone and is part of the 900-metre painted decoration of the Scrovegni
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The English queen carries on with her book club, and this time recommends Gabriel García Márquez's novel "Love in the Time of Cholera". Well, I hardly need explain what it was in the story of a feeling rekindled between two elderly former lovers that touched Camilla.
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Old Dovecotes in France. Curious stone structures on tall legs can be found in many regions of France. The dovecotes stood apart from the other buildings, somewhere on the grounds of the estate, and always above ground level, to protect the birds from damp, rats and small predators. Pigeons were
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Have you ever wondered why, in that legendary song, Butusov bids farewell to America? And an America, moreover, where he has never been? He is not saying goodbye to the United States with its Statue of Liberty, or to the skyscrapers of New York. In fact the poet is taking
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No decoration, no refinements, just bare concrete. Only a barely protruding bell tower slightly disturbs the Brutalist gloom of the concrete pile. The design echoes a number of other works by the famous architect, whose arsenal includes many churches that would serve perfectly well in the universe of "Mad