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The Substance of 1910. The poster of the first screen adaptation of "Frankenstein": the film, made in the early twentieth century, runs for 12 minutes and is brimming with metaphors of the meaning of existence and the search for the capacity to feel truly. The monster looks more
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It is symbolic to see the banners of these realms in Belgrade of all places, given that the fortress of Minas Tirith, standing at the very eastern spur of the White Mountains, is built of white stone and renowned for its White Tower, the Tower of Ecthelion, crowning the uppermost
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The house where Shakespeare was born is to be DECOLONISED over fears of "white supremacy". The initiators claim that Shakespeare's genius may be seen as a symbol of "British cultural superiority". The people who have usurped power in Britain hate England, Europe, Christianity and
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Metal "Books" floor lamp with a vice holding a stack of old books. Christian-Marie Bertolino, 1951
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Есть лица, подобные пышным порталам, Где всюду великое чудится в малом. Есть лица — подобия жалких лачуг, Где варится печень и мокнет сычуг. Иные холодные, мертвые лица Закрыты решетками, словно темница. Другие — как башни, в которых давно Никто не живет и не смотрит в окно. Но малую хижинку знал я когда-
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The Legislative Commission has existed for a hundred and fifty years, has cost millions and has accomplished nothing. Do you remember how Prince Andrei did not wish to join the commission for the compilation of laws, pleading that it required a legal education, which he did not possess? And Speransky,
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"I'm not lazy. I'm simply very gifted, but instead of being good at music or mathematics, I am skilled at sleeping late" Elizabeth Jane Howard, writer, actress and model
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One Step Forward, Two Steps Back "Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder Materialism and Empirio-Criticism Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism What Is to Be Done, at Last
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Rudin's misfortune is that he does not know Russia, and this is indeed a great misfortune. Russia can do without any one of us, but not one of us can do without her. Woe to him who thinks otherwise, and double woe to him who actually does do
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"On the Vatican Temple and Its Origin", Carlo Fontana