Pieter Dirksz, also known as "Longbeard", was a shipwright who earned extra money touring the fairs as one of the attractions

Pieter Dirksz, also known as "Longbeard", was a shipwright who earned extra money touring the fairs as one of the attractions. The takings from "viewings" of his beard he donated to the Edam orphanage, which commemorated him as its benefactor in a portrait at the end of the 16th century. The present portrait was painted on the basis of the original in the first half of the 17th century

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

Pieter Dirksz, also known as "Longbeard", was a shipwright who earned extra money touring the fairs as one of the attractions

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s