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The Seven Wonders of the World in Antiquity:

The Pyramid of Cheops The Gardens of Semiramis The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus The Tomb of Mausolus The Statue of Zeus The Colossus of Rhodes The Pharos Lighthouse. The Seven Wonders of the World under Soviet Power: The Dnieper Hydroelectric Station The Stalin White Sea–Baltic Canal The Apennine

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A small private joy: no school or university to get up for today

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If you thought that only we could produce a frightening statue of Alyonushka, look at this ghastly Greta Thunberg from the University of Winchester

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When the literary critic Desmond MacCarthy was invited to Cambridge in the 1920s to give public lectures, he devoted his course to Byron, which displeased the students: Byron had long gone out of fashion and was considered not worth discussing at…

MacCarthy was not prepared to change his subject and defended Byron in every way he could, but, seeing the audience's displeasure, he made a concession and invited anyone who wished to come to him in the evenings, after the lectures on Byron, for a conversation about talented young

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Students are forbidden to marry for the whole time of their residence at the university: so runs paragraph 17 of the section "Rules for Students of the University During the Course of Study" in the "Rules for Students and Non-Matriculated Auditors…

If one takes this fact into account, the plot twists of every nineteenth-century novel in which a student arrives in the country and makes the acquaintance of a charming young lady, the landowner's daughter, acquire a new ring. Yes, yes: after all the lyrical evenings, the walks,

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Boiler house with a chimney in the form of a rising flame in Dornach, Switzerland, built in 1914 by the Austrian scientist, naturalist, philosopher, educator and artist Rudolf Steiner

Boiler house with a chimney in the form of a rising flame in Dornach, Switzerland, built in 1914 by the Austrian scientist, naturalist, philosopher, educator and artist Rudolf Steiner. One of the outstanding figures of his time, Steiner left his mark on many fields of knowledge and culture: as the

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The Pushkin Museum website has an excellent page of lectures and videos about art in sign language, including an account of the main masterpieces in the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts collection in International Sign

The Pushkin Museum website has an excellent page of lectures and videos about art in sign language, including an account of the main masterpieces in the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts collection in International Sign. The section is called "The Pushkin for All"

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Alexandr Fyodorovich Kerensky and Vladimir Ilyich Lenin may have known each other from early childhood

Alexandr Fyodorovich Kerensky and Vladimir Ilyich Lenin may have known each other from early childhood. Their fathers were friends and kept up a close relationship. Kerensky's father was the director of the Simbirsk Classical Gymnasium for Boys, from which Lenin graduated. When Ilya Nikolayevich Ulyanov died, Fyodor Mikhailovich

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Russian History for Children

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The Copybook from Which Tsarevich Alexei Nikolayevich Learned to Write

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Progress is possible and safe only under the control of Reason

Progress is possible and safe only under the control of Reason. Only in an atmosphere of intellectual freedom is an effective system of education and of creative continuity between generations possible. Academician A.D. Sakharov, Nobel Lecture

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Putin orders books by Soviet writers added to the school curriculum

Putin has ordered books by Soviet writers to be added to the school curriculum. The Ministry of Education is to report on the fulfilment of the order by 31 August 2023. The changes will be made to the working programme for the subjects "Literary Reading" and "Literature&