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Kerensky, Uritsky, Sverdlov, Zinoviev, Lunacharsky, Lenin, Trotsky, Kamenev and Radek Sacrifice Russia to the International
No exaggeration here, incidentally. That is exactly how it is
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Fabulous Beasts from the Manuscript of the "Book of the Marvels of Marco Polo"
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An unknown Kerouac manuscript found among the effects of a mafia boss
An unknown Kerouac manuscript has been found among the effects of a mafia boss. Evidently he, too, believed that real jazz is when they shoot off the beat. Jack Kerouac, author of the cult novel On the Road and symbol of the Beat Generation. A film adaptation of the same
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Poem by Hieromonk Roman Matyushin, 1990, on the crowd and turning to God
Without God a nation is a mob, United by vice, Either blind, or foolish, Or, what is more terrible still, cruel. And let any man ascend the throne, Speaking in lofty phrase, The mob will remain a mob, Until it turns to God! Literal translation Hieromonk Roman Matyushin, 8 August
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Franz Ferdinand's Uniform and Other Assassination Relics in Vienna and Konopiště Castle
The uniform in which Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed, the bullet that killed him, the bullet hole in the glass, and the car in which he was travelling. Exhibits of the Museum of Military History in Vienna. His wife's dress and the bullet that killed her are displayed
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Dmitry Mendeleev urges Russian capitalists to develop the country's oil industry
Gentlemen, Moscow and every other Russian capitalists! Will you let the French, Germans, Swedes, English and Americans exploit this Russian wealth too and make a handsome profit from it, or will you think of taking it yourselves, when it is pointed out to you once more as a great lucrative
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Manet's “Winter Garden”, bought for Berlin in 1896 and later stored in a salt mine
American soldiers with Édouard Manet's "In the Conservatory", removed from Berlin and kept with other masterpieces in a salt mine at Merkers-Kieselbach in Germany. In the end the painting stayed in Germany, and it is now in the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin. The portrait of Manet&
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The fourteen-year-old Philip, Prince of Greece and Denmark, in costume for a production of Macbeth at Gordonstoun School in Scotland
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In an eighteenth-century alchemical manuscript, "The Wisdom of the Ancient Philosophers, or Their Teaching on the Supreme and Universal Medicine", once kept in the Capuchin library on the Rue Saint-Honoré and describing a universal medicine capable of pre
Let us take four from the many scenes: Fermentatio, Putrefactio, Solutio, Calcinatio. They show, first, the substance: a toad half-submerged in water and speckled with rising bubbles. This is the textbook visual representation of the "putrefaction of matter, often accompanied by the release of gas. Putrefaction is followed
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Voloshin's house in Koktebel and Marina Tsvetaeva's meeting with Sergei Efron in 1911
Photographs taken at Maximilian Voloshin's dacha in Koktebel, Crimea, in 1911. Voloshin began living in Koktebel in 1907: his mother, Elena Ottobaldovna Kirienko-Voloshina, whom the poet and his friends called "Pra", from the word for "foremother", bought a plot of land here and
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Ekaterina Dolgorukaya's study on the English Embankment in Saint Petersburg, 1876
Interior of the study of Ekaterina Mikhailovna Dolgorukaya, the first Most Serene Princess Yuryevskaya, in her house on the English Embankment in Saint Petersburg. Photograph of 1876. Princess Ekaterina Mikhailovna Dolgorukova (Dolgorukaya), from 1880 Most Serene Princess Yuryevskaya (1847 to 1922), was the second, morganatic, wife of Emperor Alexander II;
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