A 1904 project envisaged a new neo-Gothic abbey in the immediate vicinity of Westminster Abbey, which had been judged too crowded with antiquities

A 1904 project envisaged a new neo-Gothic abbey in the immediate vicinity of Westminster Abbey, which had been judged too crowded with antiquities. The complex was to include the tallest building in Great Britain, far higher than the towers of Westminster, Big Ben and Saint Paul's Cathedral. One can only thank the Lord that it never came to pass, though a neo-Gothic skyscraper would have been a hundred times better than the ugly glass boxes of our own day

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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

A 1904 project envisaged a new neo-Gothic abbey in the immediate vicinity of Westminster Abbey, which had been judged too crowded with antiquities

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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