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Justinian the Great wishes his crown to outshine every star in the firmament. The only trouble is that Orson Welles also demands a spotlight of his own. Still from the film “The Battle of Rome”
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Miyazaki knows the folklore and art of his native Japan very well. I am convinced that Utagawa Yoshiuji's graphic rendering of the legend Kamikiri no kidan, about a maidservant who went to the privy at night and was attacked by something utterly black that seemed to fall upon
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It looks as though the new Dumbledore's Aguamenti charm has got out of hand. Let us hope that at least Protego Maxima SPF 100 held up. With tears in our eyes, we await the release of the Harry Potter series
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It is reported that Mel Gibson will change the cast for the sequel to The Passion of the Christ. Meetings with actors are currently under way in Rome. The project has been in pre-production for several months. The film will be devoted to the events of the three days
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As sung in the song by Yury Antonov, with words by Leonid Fadeyev, from the 1981 film "Beregite zhenshchin" ["Take Care of Women"]
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Among my plans for the near future: seeing Alejandro Amenábar's new film about my beloved Cervantes. Julio Peña plays Miguel de Cervantes. The action unfolds in 1575, and the narrative draws on the real biography of the author of Don Quixote. As attentive readers will remember, many years
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I have put together a digest of the most interesting posts that appeared on the channel in September:. 📌 The story of the circus performer Matryona Rasputina, daughter of Grigory Rasputin 📌 666 degrees Celsius. The forecast of the end of the world by Isaac Newton 📌 The financing of the 1917 revolution
Aristocracy · Cinema · Books
Remembering the magnificent 1963 screen adaptation of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's novel "The Leopard", on the life of the aristocratic Salina family amid the political and social upheavals of the Risorgimento in Italy. Civil war is breaking out in Italy. On one side stand the republicans,
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The most interesting historical angle is a view of the universe in which Bulgakov's (let us not forget this, for all the charm of Leonid Gaidai) inventor-engineer Timofeev, and Nikolai Ivanovich rather than Alexander Sergeyevich, upon inventing the time machine, meets the Briton Doctor Who. Naturally, it
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in 1847 Queen Victoria conferred the hereditary title of baronet on a representative of the British branch of the Rothschild family, Anthony Nathan de Rothschild. After the death of the childless Sir Anthony the title passed to his nephew, Nathaniel Mayer Rothschild, on whom in 1885 Queen Victoria bestowed the