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Donald Duck and the Beautiful Slave Girls of Chaldea
Donald Duck and the beautiful slave girls of Chaldea. These days he would already be sitting through a hearing in the Senate
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The Siamese Army with War Elephants in 1875
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Hagia Sophia, filmed from a helicopter
Hagia Sophia, filmed from a helicopter. Just imagine how beautiful it was before the seizure
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Yury Nikulin, Yevgeny Morgunov and Georgy Vitsin on the set of the film “Kidnapping, Caucasian Style”, 1966
Photo by Oleg Mertsedin
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The remarkable Hegumen Daniel, who lived in the twelfth century, describes in his "Life and Pilgrimage of Hegumen Daniel of the Russian Land" how he petitioned King Baldwin I for leave to place a kandilo (a lamp) on the Holy Sepulchre on behalf of the who
Leave was granted, and he lit the lamp on the Sepulchre, naming all the princes, princesses and all the people of the Russian Land. What joy there was when the lamp caught fire, while the Latin lamps did not kindle. Daniel is certain that, since the lamp was lit on
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I Have Seen the Ancient Jordan
I have seen the ancient Jordan. Full of holy love and fear, Into its gospel waves, The font of baptism of Christians, I plunged three times, Praying that my soul too Might be washed, graciously, by the wave Of the sores and stains of existence. Literal translation Of those thoughts,
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During the building of the pyramid of King Neferirkare, the tallest of the Fifth Dynasty pyramids, one of the officials in charge of its construction was so overcome by the pharaoh's visit that he died of fright
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The chief exhibit, perhaps, of the Istanbul Archaeology Museum, the so-called Alexander Sarcophagus, like much in Turkey, does not correspond to its name in the least
The chief exhibit, perhaps, of the Istanbul Archaeology Museum, the so-called Alexander Sarcophagus, like much in Turkey, does not correspond to its name in the least. In truth, it is connected with Alexander only by a coincidence of dating and by the fact that the king appears in one
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The Aswan Dam on the Nile, built in Egypt by the USSR, is itself a monument to Egyptian-Soviet friendship, yet once the hydroelectric complex was finished a separate monument was also erected to commemorate the warm relations between the two countries
Attempts to dam the Nile had been made for a long time, but the efforts of the early twentieth century came to nothing. The truly epoch-making undertaking was the Soviet construction in Egypt. The colossal dam raised by builders from the USSR was dubbed a modern pyramid, though in
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Poster Celebrating Egyptian-Soviet Friendship, Commemorating the Construction of the Aswan Dam
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If any of us is in want, great or small, and we know of it, we share all we have with him
If any of us is in want, great or small, and we know of it, we share all we have with him. We hold it a law that no one should ever be acquainted with loss. In our possessions we are equal to one another. Riches have been dealt out
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If you want to know your past, look at your present form and condition
If you want to know your future, look at your actions in the present. Padmasambhava, the eighth-century Indian teacher of Buddhist tantra.