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Remember how in "The Death of Stalin" Beria rushes frantically to break open the safe in the leader's study and removes a folder of documents from it? And yet Beria was credited with crimes similar to Epstein's line of business...
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In the twenty-first century, Helen of Troy is barely recognisable! In Christopher Nolan's Odyssey, the most beautiful woman in the world is played by the Kenyan actress Lupita Nyong'o
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At this council Prince Dmitry Donskoy, Andrey Rublev, Maximus the Greek, Metropolitan Macarius, Paisius Velichkovsky, the Blessed Xenia of Saint Petersburg, Ignatius (Brianchaninov), Ambrose of Optina and Theophan the Recluse were glorified among the saints. The celebration of the jubilee is shown in the 1989 documentary film “The Local Council
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No better combo than Einstein and Mr Bean could possibly be devised. Any thoughts as to why they are there?
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In a Netflix documentary on the Second World War, the Greek resistance to Italy is called "weak", although in fact Greece drove the Italians back into Albania, liberating Northern Epirus. Yes, the worst army of the Second World War attacked the second-worst army and suffered such a
Cinema · Observations · Humour
Well, Happy New Year, officially this time! And enough of lounging about. Neither I nor Vittorio Gassman, in the role of the despotic Captain Ahab in “Moby Dick”, will tolerate any further holidays in the near future.
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Yesterday the world bade farewell to Brigitte Bardot: the 91-year-old actress was laid to rest in a cemetery overlooking the Mediterranean, where her parents are also buried. Macron did not appear at the farewell ceremony, the funeral or the official requiem mass. The Bardot family did not respond
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So what do we see in a futurological picture a hundred years old, apart from colossal skyscrapers, instantly recognisable traffic jams and high-altitude trains? Robotics, artificial intelligence and a sharp deterioration in working conditions. In principle, rather like the world we live in now.
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It turns out that in 2003 Lucy Lawless appeared in the historical television project "Women Warriors", about six female fighters from different historical eras. Besides Joan of Arc, the series features Boudica, Lozen, Hua Mulan and Grace O'Malley. One for the holidays!
Cinema · Books · Observations
When I think about Joanne Rowling's place in contemporary culture, I recall that a few years ago the most translated author in the world was found to be the English children's writer Enid Blyton. Not Shakespeare, not the Apostles, not Agatha Christie or Daniel Defoe, but