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A view of the Sicilian town of Centuripe, spread across the mountains in the shape of a man. Or perhaps one might simply turn into a bird?
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Books · Observations · Mores
"I had no scenes directly with Marya Nikolayevna, but all the same I was in the same picture as her. And here is what is interesting: Marya Nikolayevna, always so attentive, so courteous, so kind... you understand, here, when I ran off the stage and had not met her
Art · Cinema · Society
Comrades at Work. A painting by the British artist Evelyn Dunbar, Harvest Time, 1943. The canvas documents the existence of a phenomenon known as the Women's Land Army, which first appeared in Great Britain during the First World War as a public organisation for assisting with agricultural labour.
Architecture · Books · Paris · People
In 1947 Jean Cocteau moved into a seventeenth-century château near Fontainebleau, which remained his permanent residence until the end of his days. In La Difficulté d'être [“The Difficulty of Being”] he wrote of it: “This house was waiting for me. Here I am as in a refuge,
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The white-stone foundation of the Kitay-gorod wall, in the underground passage at the metro exit towards Zaryadye. In its day, in the sixteenth century, Kitay-gorod was one of the mightiest Russian fortresses: on a wall six to seven metres thick, two teams of horses could pass each
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NB! · Archive · The East · Society · Ethnography
Armenian women pose for a keepsake photograph with their weapons before setting out for the war with the Ottomans. It is impossible to believe that this picture is 126 years old
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