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The Beatles’ spontaneous photo shoot of 28 July 1968, remembered as Mad Day Out
On 28 July 1968 the Beatles, instead of working in the studio, staged a spontaneous shoot at various places around the city, with no script, no route and hardly any preparation. The aim was to recover from the gruelling recording of their ninth album and at last to document new
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Studio photograph by Ray Fisher, American photojournalist and portraitist
Training Postponed. A photograph by the American photographer Ray Fisher (1924-2020), taken in the second half of the twentieth century. Fisher was known above all as a photojournalist and the author of portraits of politicians, musicians and public figures, yet his studio work demonstrates a different approach
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We Are Tired of Using “You” to the Stars, We Have Learned the Sweetness of Roaring
The programme of the Futurists in two lines of Khlebnikov, written around 1908. We wish to say “thou” to the stars We are tired of saying “you” to the stars We have learned the sweetness of roaring Be fearsome, like Ostranitsa, Platov and Baklanov, Enough of your bowing To the
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Lead Seal of Pope Clement V from the 14th Century Found in Central Tallinn
A well-preserved papal bulla, a fourteenth-century lead seal belonging to Pope Clement V, has been found during excavations in the centre of Tallinn. The find was made in a medieval cultural layer together with pottery and other artefacts. The archaeologist Mihkel Tammet believes that the seal may have
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The bureaucrat kindled the fire of indifference
A poster of the Perestroika era
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Exhibition “Beyond the 101st Kilometre” opens in Tarusa for 65th anniversary of the 1961 show
An exhibition called "Beyond the Hundred-and-First Kilometre. Nonconformists in Tarusa" has opened in Tarusa, marking the 65th anniversary of the "first free exhibition" of unofficial artists, held here in 1961 in the premises of the town club. That was a year before the Manege
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The Second Cenotaph of Marina Tsvetayeva on the Bank of the Oka in Tarusa, Erected in 1988
I should like to lie in the Tarusa Khlyst cemetery, under an elder bush, in one of those graves with a silver dove, where the reddest and largest wild strawberries in our parts grow. But if that is unattainable, if not only may I not lie there, but that cemetery
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Thomas Salmon on the bribery of judges in Russia in his 1735 book
In any dispute, the first thing done is to bribe the judge. Money is taken from both sides, as is well known, and he who gives more wins the case. Thomas Salmon, "Modern History, or the Present State of ... Russia", 1735
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A Humorous Design for a Summer Theatre Hall for Gentlemen, Where One Might Sit Half-Undressed: The Heat of 1861
Drawing by Alfred Grévin (1827-1892) for the cover of issue 281 of the Petit Journal pour Rire. A simple design for a summer hall for gentlemen, submitted to the gentlemen among the theatre directors, or even to the gentlemen of the commission for the creation of a new opera
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The liberals play the most wretched part and, confining themselves to idle chatter, cannot, from their habitual cowardice, bring themselves to any serious step; the sole exception is a serious and respectable circle numbering no more than 10 to 15…
From the "Reports of Rachkovsky, Official for Special Assignments of the Ministry of the Interior", 16 to 28 October 1894.
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A team led by the University of Kentucky virtually unrolled a papyrus from Herculaneum
For the First Time in History, One of the Charred Herculaneum Scrolls Has Been Read in Full. An international team of engineers and scholars led by the University of Kentucky has virtually unrolled a papyrus from the Villa of the Papyri, the library that perished together with Herculaneum in the