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Today Gérard Depardieu Is 74
Today Gérard Depardieu is 74. This is how I remember him
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Fell because of a cat darting underfoot
Faith · Art · People
Iconography of Saint Stephen the protomartyr and his Orthodox and Catholic feast days
Saint Stephen, the Christian protomartyr executed by decision of the Sanhedrin around AD 33-36, is customarily depicted as a beardless youth at the moment of his execution, being stoned. In his hands Stephen often holds the Gospel and a palm branch, or a censer. Stephen was one of the
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The Crystal Temple from the Yule Ball scene in the 2005 film "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"
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Painted portrait of a seated man in military dress and a grey greatcoat
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My appearance before the New Year holidays and after the New Year holidays
Books · Monarchies · Saint Petersburg · Humour
Leaving his box, the emperor said the play had hit everyone, and him most of all
Nicholas I, with the heir, at the premiere of The Government Inspector on the stage of the Alexandrinsky Theatre on 19 April 1836, felt roughly like this. Leaving the box, the Emperor exclaimed: "What a play! Everyone got it, and I most of all!"
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Little Norway Has Been Given a Very Large Moon
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Isabella of Castile has a rather advanced spacesuit for the late fourteenth century
Almaty · Observations · People
Choreographer Bulat Ayukhanov, founder of a dance theatre, died in Almaty on 13 December
It is with sorrow that I learnt that on 13 December the outstanding ballet master and dancer Bulat Ayukhanov died in Almaty. He would have turned 85 this year. Bulat Gazizovich and I had been acquainted since 2011; I often spoke about this remarkable artist and wrote about him. I
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If you feel you already have too many children, there is nothing amiss in letting one of the little ones play with a cavalry sabre
The title of Parents of the Year is assured to this British officer of the East Lothian Yeomanry Cavalry and his wife, captured by an unknown artist in 1815 with, for the moment, four children
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Falling weight of the silver kopeck under Mikhail Fyodorovich and Alexei Mikhailovich
On the Government's Manipulation of the Exchange Rate in Days of Old. Under Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich the weight of the kopeck was 0.5 grams of silver. In practice, however, coins of lesser weight were struck: first 0.48 grams, then 0.46-0.47 grams, until matters