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Nizhny Novgorod Opera House stages "The Abduction from the Seraglio", written by Mozart shortly before his marriage to Constanze Weber

The problems of fidelity and choice in love and freedom, of male and female nature: critics call Mozart's opera "a fantasy for grown-ups". The premiere runs from 29 February to 3 March, in a production by Ekaterina Odegova; the musical director of the performance is

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A Girl Resting by the Water

A girl resting by the water. The artist is Étienne Dinet, who fell in love with Algeria and its people and created a beautiful Algerian cycle. The painting is now on show at the Institut du monde arabe in Paris, in an exhibition that runs until June

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Pupils of One of the Most Famous Jewish Religious Schools, the Mir Yeshiva in Shanghai

Founded in 1815 in the small town of Mir in the Russian Empire, on the territory of present-day Belarus, the Mir Yeshiva played a key role in the development of Jewish religious education. And although the word Mir still stands in its name, the school, which was known as

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Wrestlers on Greek coins of the 5th–4th centuries BC from Aspendos, an ancient Greco-Roman city in Antalya Province

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Neolithic Marble Figurine from Turkey, 5500 – 8000 BC

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Those who enjoy studying languages will surely have come across the term Sprachbund, especially if they have ever set about the Balkan tongues

Sprachbund, or linguistic union, describes similarities that arise not from the genetic kinship of languages but from close linguistic and cultural contact. Different languages with no shared basic vocabulary or morphology may nonetheless have weighty similarities in syntax, phonetics and cultural lexis: this is precisely what a Sprachbund is. The

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A Tatar Kalmak

A Tatar Kalmak. Engraving from Philippe Avril's "Travels into Divers Parts of Europe and Asia, Undertaken by the French King's Order to Discover a New Way by Land into China", 1693

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"A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter"

"A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter." And the camels galled, sore-footed, refractory, Lying down in the melting snow. There

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When a giraffe was presented to Zhu Di (1360-1424), the third emperor of the Ming dynasty, during the voyages of his subject Zheng He around the world, the court was delighted, for everyone took the animal for a qilin or kirin, the mythical beast, one of…

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Membership card of the Union for Mutual Aid of Jews from Russia in Constantinople, 1923

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British Colonial Troops Marching Past the Great Pyramids, 1940

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Konstantin Lipskerov, 1916

Konstantin Lipskerov, 1916. Poems written under the impression of a journey to Turkestan