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Portrait of Jorge Luis Borges, who lived from 1899 to 1986
In my next life I shall try to make more mistakes. Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)
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I have read the new draft of the 2024 Unified State Exam (EGE) and, besides the changes that hold little interest for me, not being a school teacher of Russian literature, concerning the number of tasks (11 instead of 12) and primary marks (48 instead of
So, in order. 1. When answering a question, one may no longer refer to any author at will; one must choose from those named in the question itself. 2. Russian literature before the second half of the nineteenth century has vanished from the codifier of core texts. Now the first
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British troops burned the White House and the Capitol in 1814, and Jefferson's books replaced the Library of Congress
On 24 August 1814 the White House and the Capitol were burnt by British troops after the American defeat at the Battle of Bladensburg. In the fire the Library of Congress was destroyed entirely. In the end, in place of the burnt library, the state acquired the book collection of
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Galileo drew the relief of the Moon in 1609 and refuted the idea of a smooth lunar sphere
Galileo Galilei's Sketches of the Moon, Published in 1610. Galileo began sketching the Moon in 1609, using a telescope of his own improvement. The fruit of his researches was a series of drawings of the Moon which were not its first depiction: shortly before, Thomas Harriot had recorded
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Officially in Love with the 1965 Cover of "Fathers and Sons", Borrowed from a Nineteenth-Century Russian Songbook
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Dostoevsky on nihilists in his letters to Maykov and Meshchersky
"There is nothing to be said about nihilism. Wait until this upper layer, torn away from the soil of Russia, has rotted through entirely. Do you know, it occurs to me that many of these very same scoundrel-youths, these rotting youths, will end by becoming genuine, firm adherents
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I don't know about you, but for me the titles of Lenin's works are literally a selection of moods for every day
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Butler's bee hierarchy with a queen at the head, an aristocracy and a plebs
The Hierarchy of Bee Society: An Illustration from The Feminine Monarchie, or The History of Bees, the 1609 Scientific Book by the English Naturalist Charles Butler. That bee society is headed by a queen was news at the time; this fact had been discovered only at the end of the
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Adam, Eve and Dinosaurs: The Ascent of Life
and The trumpet of scientific judgement, which raised extinct species from the dead so that they might appear before the tribunal of naturalists - witty illustrations from the astronomer Camille Flammarion's book The World Before the Creation of Man, 1886
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Come round, I'll show you my magnificent library
A magnificent library:
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One of the finest screen adaptations of Dostoevsky was made by Ivan Pyryev in 1958
One of the finest screen adaptations of Dostoevsky was made by Ivan Pyryev in 1958. Alas, the unfinished two-part film "The Idiot" was not duly appreciated in its day. The general mood after its release was such that Pyryev abandoned the idea of shooting the second part.