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The game of thimbles has been known since the most ancient times and over the millennia has scarcely changed, gathering around it even today people who seem positively glad to be deceived and parted from their money. Only the thimbles themselves change: in ancient India cups were used, in ancient
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When his son came of age to marry, he said to him: "Antipushka, it is time you fulfilled the law, and I have found you a bride. Matvey Petrovich Solodov's daughter Annushka, have you seen her?.. She will make you a proper housewife: meek, hard-working, fair
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Chinese wooden chariot with a wooden horse. 200s AD.
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"He was clothed in a robe dipped in blood. His name is called "The Word of God". And the armies of heaven followed Him on white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. Out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, with which to strike the
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The Heavenly Host. Viktor Vasnetsov
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Saint Anthony hurries away from an imposing mountain of gold that has appeared to him from a cave, resisting the temptation of riches. Few manage to overcome this trial
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A very charming "treasure map" of the Nizhny Novgorod Region has appeared on the Sobaka.ru website. The map shows, in interactive form, the main centres of the region's folk crafts and decorative and applied arts, and is at the same time a chronicle of Russian
Art · Books · Observations · Rome
"Gods! What horror! My father's head!" cries Tullia, beholding the remains of the executed Cicero. Mark Antony, who together with Lepidus and Octavian Augustus had established in Rome the regime of the Second Triumvirate, declared Cicero, the most influential of the senators, an enemy of the