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A Mountain of Crockery with a Pearl Earring
A mountain of crockery with a pearl earring. The artist is Emil Schwarzler
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In life, the cantankerous alarm clock from Beauty and the Beast is considerably larger than in the film
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How the Circus of Caligula, 1st Century AD, Became the Modern Vatican
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“I fear that we are tempted to build a human church, in keeping with the times and with our own notions”
Cardinal Robert Sarah
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List of Russian Subjects Who Perished in the Sinking of the Titanic Published
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Caricature of the 1843 Closure of Karl Marx's Rheinische Zeitung in Cologne
The Prussian eagle pecks at the liver of Karl Marx, chained to a printing press like Prometheus to his rock. The caricature was timed to coincide with the closure in 1843 of the Cologne Rheinische Zeitung, edited by Marx
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May Your Morning Begin with the Beautiful Ancient Rus' of Vsevolod Ivanov
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Another Stroke of Genius on Avito
Another stroke of genius on Avito. Yeltsin plays billiards with the presidents of the Union republics as the balls, and Gorbachev, naturally, breaks the USSR
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Five Russian titles of a novel about an underwater voyage, published between 1870 and 1956
George Sand suggested the idea of the novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" to Jules Verne, proposing in a letter of 1865 that he write a book about a voyage across the ocean in a submarine. In Russian translation the novel appeared under various titles: Eighty Thousand
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The Heraldic Crowns of the United Kingdom of Italy
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Cillian Murphy in 2007 on the set of “28 Days Later” on Vasilyevsky Spusk in Moscow
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Queen of Beasts Card from an Early Western European Deck of 1450 to 1467
A playing card showing a woman entirely covered in hair, embracing a unicorn. The drawing dates from 1450-1467 and belongs to one of the earliest Western European card packs. As you can see, fifteenth-century cards differed greatly from modern ones: you will scarcely find a suit marker here,