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"The present situation is grievous, chiefly by reason of the same unceasing lies and deceit from top to bottom. At the summit, the Petersburg court rabble consists of predators and idiots, and around it there is a gang of plunderers. All the reforms that the government is now granting
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“I recall one peculiar literary evening, staged by the Futurists at the Polytechnic Museum. The literary evening was presided over by two Futurists: David Burliuk and Vasily Kamensky (...) To scandalise the bourgeois, the Futurists pulled off the following trick: David Burliuk was proclaimed the father of Russian Futurism, and Vasily
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A teacher and his students from the "Summa de potestate ecclesiastica" by the Italian theologian Augustinus of Ancona. Those with a keen eye will have noticed that the tables with benches in this illustration of the fifteenth century bear a suspicious resemblance to the celebrated Erismann desks, invented
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On 22 September 1819, the English Romantic poet John Keats wrote in his journal: "Talking of pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my mouth a nectarine — good God how fine! It went down soft, pulpy, slushy, oozy — all its delicious
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The other day I wrote about the piece in Elle on Elizabeth's childhood. The articles by the royal family's former governess appeared in various publications in Europe and the United States and astonished the public. The Windsors were astonished too, having given no permission for the
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The favourite amusement of Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret was mechanical horses. Not, of course, that the girls had not been riding since earliest childhood, and Elizabeth simply adored all horses, both her own and those passing by their house, and the Guards' chargers too. She even said that, were
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