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Ralph Lincoln and his kinship with Abraham Lincoln through Mordecai Lincoln
Ralph Lincoln likes to stress his resemblance to Abraham Lincoln and even wears an old-fashioned suit and a top hat in the manner of the famous Lincolnian image. A public figure and speaker on American history, above all on the biography of the 16th President of the United States,
Books · Observations · Humour
A short remark of approval addressed to the English
The first edition of the academic dictionary of 1735 indicated that, under the word "Angliya" (England), the words "anglinsky" and "aglichanin" were the norm. Well, it doesn't sound bad, DEAR AGLICHANE!
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Queen Victoria's sense of humour and sharp mind, and Nina Usatova as a possible Victoria
Queen Victoria is usually presented as a squeamish prude and a lady of sorrow, but she had a wonderful sense of humour and a very sharp mind, and a smile, glimpsed in a few rare photographs, that could lift the spirits. I should like to see Nina Usatova, for example,
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...As best I can put it, I cannot find the word: Not quite ill, not quite well, but so... neither one thing nor the other... as though not herself, She says to her husband: "Listen, my life, I need a new outfit for the holiday: Pray buy a turban from Mada
The poem "The Fashionable Wife" by the Russian sentimentalist poet Ivan Ivanovich Dmitriev (1760-1837) appeared in three versions during his lifetime. And three times the form of the adjective "English" changed in it. In the first, in 1792, we read: "And from her it&
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When anyone begins to praise Metlakh tiles to excess, remember this passage from the report of the architect-restorer Pyotr Pokryshkin to the Imperial Archaeological Commission on his inspection of the Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery of Zvenigorod…
“I found the painting of the monastery's bell tower complete. To my great regret, the painting has been done in oil paints in the former pale pink, banal colour, without the permission of the consistory, and consequently before the Commission's opinion was received. Having learnt from
NB! · Art · Museums
Cleopatra with an Egyptian cobra, onyx, Milan, turn of the 16th and 17th centuries
Cleopatra with an Egyptian cobra, onyx, Milan, turn of the 16th and 17th centuries. Collection of the British Museum
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Vsevolod Meyerhold's Birth Name Was Karl Kasimir Theodor
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Golda Meir criticised Kissinger for insufficient support of Israel in 1973
In 1973, during the Yom Kippur War, Golda Meir criticised Henry Kissinger for not supporting Israel enough, despite the fact that he practises Judaism. Kissinger wrote to her: “I wish to inform you that, firstly, I am a citizen of the United States, secondly, Secretary of State, and only thirdly
NB! · Books · Moscow
Not a Bad Berth at the Moscow Bookshop
Cinema · Moscow · Education · People
Meyerhold's complimentary pass led GUM clerk Nemolyaev to the theatre and VGIK
How chance intervened in the life of Volodya Nemolyayev, a humble clerk and graduate of the Lomonosov Technical School (formerly the Imperial Komissarov School). Meyerhold presented the nimble GUM employee with a complimentary pass to any ten performances, and the young man fell wholeheartedly in love with the theatre and
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Snowmen in the likeness of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, her daughter Juliana, and Juliana's dog Mannie in a muzzle
Beside the figures stand the proud creators of this masterpiece in snow. I would say that in execution this sculptural group is no whit inferior to the monument to Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina in The Hague, or to the one by the church at Apeldoorn that she founded. I adore