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I Looked at Dolly Parton's Wedding Photo and Realised That Our Dolly Is Nadezhda Kadysheva
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Uncle Sam has long had his eye on this morsel, and it seems he will have to eat it!
“Trouble in Cuba”: satirical illustration by Bernhard Gillam for the cover of the American magazine Judge, August 1895
Art · Madrid · Museums
In all likelihood, a depiction of a theatrical staging of Euripides' play "Heracles", which tells the myth of Heracles gone mad
On the stage of a theatre we see Heracles, driven to despair by the spirits of madness. The hero is ready to destroy his own family: he is about to throw his son, whom he holds in his arms, into a fire in which all his possessions are already burning.
Archaeology · Art · Madrid · Museums · Heritage · Paris
One of the most famous sculptures of the ancient world and arguably the greatest monument of Iberian art, the Lady of Elche, found in 1897, was soon after its discovery acquired by the Louvre for 4,000 francs
The masterpiece of Spanish antiquity remained in France until 1941, when Spain exchanged it, under a special programme, for several dozen other works of art and items of jewellery. The sculpture dates from the 4th century BC. Franco ordered the Lady of Elche to be displayed in the Prado National
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In the "Where to Go" section: a new selection of exhibition events in Moscow
📌 The exhibition "From Fabric to Space. Avant-Garde Women of Design" at the Museum of Decorative Art: until 29 March 📌 The joint exhibition by Veronika Kozachenok and Yegor Koreshkov "He / She" at Cube.Moscow: until 19 April 📌 13 February: opening of the exhibition "Behind the
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The Louvre suspends its expansion competition shortly before the jury vote
The Louvre has suspended indefinitely the competition for the museum's expansion project, announced in June 2025. The decision was taken less than a week before the jury was due to vote on the winner. The Louvre - Nouvelle Renaissance project, announced by Macron in January 2025, was meant to
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Ignaty Karamov's 1949 poem “Kirpichnoye” on great deeds without miracles
Let the deaf heavyweight of History Preen and boast of his record, — The secret is out: in this proud world There are loud deeds, but no miracles. We dreamed of foam, of singing, of propylaea And of the mysterious rising of solemn crowds, But in the morning the usual schemes
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A Russian Proverb
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Former Hotel du Nord in Odessa, where Pushkin stayed in the summer of 1823
The house in Odessa where Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin lived. The Hotel du Nord stood here, and Pushkin stayed in it for a month in the summer of 1823. The street was then called Italianskaya; in 1880 it was renamed Pushkinskaya. In 1959 a Literary Memorial Museum was opened here
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Vladimir Etush Street appears in Moscow between Lobachevsky and Vasily Lanovoy Streets
A street named after Vladimir Etush has appeared in Moscow. It runs from Lobachevsky Street to Vasily Lanovoy Street
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