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Olympic Cauldron Installed on Milan's Arch of Peace
In just a week the 2026 Winter Olympic Games will open in Milan and Cortina
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Fyodor Shalyapin on a Finnish kicksled visiting Ilya Repin in Kuokkala, February 1914
Feodor Chaliapin visiting Ilya Repin in February 1914. Vyborg Governorate, the village of Kuokkala. Chaliapin stands on the runners of a Finnish kicksled, a conveyance extremely popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Sweden, Finland, Norway and the northern provinces of Russia. The design is as follows:
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A monk of the Iversky Monastery at Valdai drowned swimming the lake to his beloved
We Had Our Own Hero and Leander, Sung by Alexander Nikolayevich Radishchev in "Journey from Saint Petersburg to Moscow" The Valdai lake, upon which this town is built, will remain memorable in the tale of a monk who sacrificed his life for the sake of his mistress. A
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Young Leander, who lived on the Trojan shore of the Hellespont, fell in love with Hero, a priestess of Aphrodite from Sestos on the opposite bank
By night Hero would light a fire on her tower so that her beloved could swim the strait and meet her. But one night the wind put out the flame, and Leander drowned. Seeing Leander's body, Hero threw herself from her tower into the sea. Peter Paul Rubens,
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Is the Grenadier Swaggering Before Napoleon, or Merely Bristling?
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Church of the Merciful Saviour in Spass and Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Korino
Two church ensembles in the Yaroslavl Region granted official heritage status and entered in the unified state register. The first is the Church of the Saviour the All-Merciful in the village of Spass on the left bank of the Volga, built at the very beginning of the 19th century.
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In 1635-1636, a domestic church dedicated to the Saviour Not Made by Hands was built on the men's side of the palace
In 1635-1636, a domestic church dedicated to the Saviour Not Made by Hands was built on the men's side of the palace. It later came to be called the Upper Saviour Cathedral (Verkhospassky Sobor). In 1682 three palace churches, those of the Resurrection "Slovushchy", of
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Rome introduces a 2 euro charge for tourists to approach the Trevi Fountain
From Monday, a close-up view of Rome's iconic Trevi Fountain will cost money. The price for tourists and non-residents of Rome is 2 euros. The system will operate daily from 09:00 to 22:00, except on Mondays and Fridays, when public access will open at
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Should any boyar, okolnichy, Duma man, clerk (dyak), or other judge, whether for bribes, for friendship, or for enmity, convict the innocent plaintiff or defendant and acquit the guilty, and the matter be proven true, then from such judges the plaintiff's
Should any boyar, okolnichy, Duma man, clerk (dyak), or other judge, whether for bribes, for friendship, or for enmity, convict the innocent plaintiff or defendant and acquit the guilty, and the matter be proven true, then from such judges the plaintiff's claim shall be recovered threefold and given
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Joan Crawford in My Way of Life on mistakes, bitterness and generosity
Joan Crawford on her way to the launch of her book in Boston, November 1971. I am the sum of everything that has ever happened to me, every mistake I have made and every tear I have shed, though I have tried to keep them few, and I have never
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