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I was walking down an unfamiliar street, and suddenly I heard the cawing of crows, and the sounds of a lute, and distant thunder; before me flew a tram

How I leapt onto its footboard Was a riddle to me. It left a fiery trail in the air, Even in the light of day. Literal translation It raced like a dark, winged storm, It had lost its way in the abyss of time… Stop it, tram driver, Stop the

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literally any classical subject

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...he sat on his perch on the gun, still agitated at the thought of the Sovereign and of his love for him...

All the same, the most charming character in "War and Peace" is Petya Rostov

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In the Croatian city of Pula, a Roman amphitheatre survives in splendid condition, and the locals call it their Colosseum

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Edgar Allan Poe looks like a cartoon about himself

Edgar Allan Poe looks like a cartoon about himself. The writer died on 7 October 1849, and yet his works seem far more modern than that. Edgar Allan was found in a gutter in Baltimore, and for four more days he lay in hospital, reportedly because of a brain tumour.

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When You Can Finally Afford Comfort-Class Housing

Faith · Books · Mores

When men strive together with one another, and the wife of one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets: then thou shalt cut off her hand; thine eye shall no

Deuteronomy 25:11-12

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Pope Francis expresses shame before the victims after the report

Pope Francis has learned the findings of the French report on child abuse in the Church, and has called it "a moment of shame" "Shame on me, shame on us, for the Church's far too long inability to place the victims at the centre of

Archive · Faith · Society

In France, a shocking report has been published following almost three years of work by the Commission on Child Abuse in the Catholic Church

The investigation included interviews with victims and witnesses, and the study of church, court, police and news archives going back to the 1950s. The French report states that around 330,000 children have been subjected to sexual abuse in one form or another over the past 70 years by some

NB! · Observations · Paris · Humour

If you are in Paris and don't know what to do with yourself..

If you are in Paris and don't know what to do with yourself.. Yes, in the mornings I am a great dreamer

Archaeology · Art · Museums · Humour

Have You No Shame Before the Guests, Jupiter!

Have you no shame before the guests, Jupiter! New gods never come to mortals naked. Jupiter, Juno, Minerva. Roman sculptures. Most probably grave goods. Weißenburg Roman Museum.

NB! · Art · Cinema · Society

Initiatives worth noting: contemporary Russian artists have designed posters for the screenings of the Street Cinema Festival in their home towns

Initiatives worth noting: contemporary Russian artists have designed posters for the screenings of the Street Cinema Festival in their home towns. Among the authors are Anya Samoylova, Misha Goodwin, Vladimir Abikh, Mayana Nasybullova, Sasha Gordeyev, Maxim Trulov and Ksyusha Lastochka

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