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Posters of Lenin, Trotsky, Marx and Mao at the Institut d'études politiques in France during the events of May 1968
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The world's oldest Underground station, Baker Street, London: 157 years apart
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A View of Hiroshima Before and After the Atomic Bombing of 6 August 1945
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Don't tell me I'm the only one who finds reading Russian manuscripts of the early seventeenth century reminiscent of the Wonnie meme universe
Don't tell me I'm the only one who finds reading Russian manuscripts of the early seventeenth century reminiscent of the Wonnie meme universe. And don't you dare even hint that you don't read such things!
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Alexander Herzen's letter to Alexander II requesting freedom, land and speech for Russians
Letter from Alexander Herzen to Alexander II, an Emperor Who Did Not Have to Cross a Square Drenched in Blood to Mount the Throne. Simple, clear and kind words. A cherished appeal. The request of a free Russian to grant the Russian people freedom, land and the spoken word. Much
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"Pull all the faces you like behind my back; my backside is looking at you"
Gustave Flaubert to Louise Colet
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Nicholas II and George V on photo cards where they swap places
Nicholas II and George V are such fun, swapping places in identical photographs to confuse everyone around them: the Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen of their day. I just cannot decide whether this is already "Papasha from the Posters" or still "Two: Me and My Shadow"
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Today, at 25/9 Tverskaya Street in Moscow
Today, at 25/9 Tverskaya Street in Moscow, the Museum-Apartment of the People's Artist of the USSR Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya opened its doors. The apartment in which Plisetskaya lived was donated to the Bakhrushin Theatre Museum by the ballerina's widower, the composer Rodion Shchedrin. Together
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Prince Christian and Princess Alexandrine Augusta of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, the future King Christian X of Denmark and Queen Alexandrine
Prince Christian and Princess Alexandrine Augusta of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, the future King Christian X of Denmark and Queen Alexandrine. The photograph was taken at Fredensborg Palace in 1903
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Photographs by the Italian photographer Ferdinando Scianna
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Caesar, Strabo and Cassius Dio on polyandry and shared wives in the British Isles
"In Brittany many men sleep with a single wife, and many wives lust after a single man," reports a Russian chronicler. This is not the only mention of polygyny and polyandry in the British Isles. Already in Julius Caesar's "Commentaries on the Gallic War"