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The Soviet translator Natalya Leonidovna Trauberg on the Russian poet and translator Valentin Stenich, who made the first Russian translation of "Ulysses" and was shot in 1938:. "Nobody was particularly surprised about him [that he would be arrested], because in 1937 they were locking up people who,
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He reposes. He has voyaged. And with him? Sinbad the Sailor and Tinbad the Tailor and Jinbad the Jailer and Whinbad the Whaler and Ninbad the Nailer and Finbad the Failer and Binbad the Bailer and Pinbad the Pailer and Xinbad the Phthailer. When? Going to a dark bed there
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According to legend, during the war with the Sabines the Roman king Tarquinius Priscus vowed to build in Rome a temple in honour of Jupiter, Juno and Minerva: by ancient Etruscan tradition, the sanctuary of the principal divine triad was raised on the dominant height of the city. Of course,
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The NYTimes has recently published a selection of Bill Cunningham's photographs of New York's Easter parades, which ran in Sunday Styles from 1997 to 2007. A time to which one would truly like to return 🌧💖
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I do not know which came first, the roast chicken or the boiled egg, but pastry in the shape of letters is the very same alphabet biscuit from your childhood breakfasts, only larger and richer. In Germany today such baked goods are sometimes called Russisch Brot, supposedly because the Dresden
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Ever heard of candaulism? It is a psychopathological syndrome manifesting itself in the desire to show strangers the nakedness of one's partner. In our own day, this pathology is not infrequently encountered on Instagram. Yet as early as 1646 one could learn of such a deviation from the
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The light has gone out of my life: a diary entry by Theodore Roosevelt. On 14 February 1884 the future American president Theodore Roosevelt lost his mother, who died of typhoid fever at the age of 48, and his wife, aged 22, who died of acute kidney failure after giving
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The interiors of Highclere Castle in Hampshire, ancestral seat of the Earls of Carnarvon, built in the early seventeenth century and rebuilt in 1838–1878, may be seen not only in the series "Downton Abbey", which made the castle famous, but also in the comedy film "King
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After the wedding ceremony on 14 May 1962, the Greek princess Sophia and the Spanish prince Juan Carlos (the future King and Queen of Spain) set off for the royal palace in Athens in a carriage drawn by six horses. The carriage is a far from ordinary one: it was
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To cure an ailment, take a little water and mix it with plain... ...grave dust. Bede the Venerable writes of Saint Chad, Chad of Mercia, a bishop who lived in the seventh century and was canonised soon after his death, that dust from his grave was held to be miraculous