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Beatlemania on the pages of the Daily Mirror in November 1963
Beatlemania, provoking emotions as on a painting by Munch
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The Open Leaf festival of history and archaeology takes place on 7 November at the Nekrasov Library
On 7 November the Nekrasov Library will host "Open List", a festival devoted to history and archaeology "Open List" is a free one-day festival that will bring together scholars, archaeologists, museum specialists, artists and popularisers of science from different cities of Russia. Over the course
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The Bolshoi Drama Theatre repeats “The Trial of Raskolnikov” for the Dostoevsky centenary in Petrograd
The playbill of the Bolshoi Drama Theatre announces a full repeat of the staged "Trial of Raskolnikov" on 21 November 1921 On 11 November 1921 (30 October, Old Style) it was one hundred years since the birth of Dostoevsky, and Petrograd marked the writer's jubilee. A
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Oberlin College photography professor Pipo Nguyen-duy and his wife shot dead in Ohio
A 64-year-old professor of photography at Oberlin College and his 56-year-old wife have been shot dead in Ohio. According to documents of the Oberlin Municipal Court, the investigation has charged the photographer's 31-year-old child from a previous marriage, Asia Nguyen-duy (born
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Alexander Kruglov's verse on laziness and reading on the endpaper of “My First ABC”, 1890
A wish for all children for the coming week: Beware, children, of idleness As of a bad habit. And read each day If only a single page. Literal translation A little verse by Alexander Kruglov from the endpaper of "My First Alphabet Book", published in 1890 by the
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Catherine Deneuve on the set of Jean Aurel's film “Manon 70” in October 1967
Catherine Deneuve in October 1967, during the shooting of the film "Manon 70" directed by Jean Aurel
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New York's Nathalie Karg Gallery shows Friedel Dzubas's black paintings
The Nathalie Karg Gallery in New York is showing rare black-and-white paintings by Friedel Dzubas in the exhibition "Friedel Dzubas: From Darkness to Light". Dzubas became famous as a master of colour field painting. He was born in Berlin in 1915 to a Catholic mother and
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Three Fake Modigliani Heads Found in a Livorno Canal in 1984
I read that during the celebration of Modigliani's centenary in his native city of Livorno in the summer of 1984, the Progressive Museum of Modern Art of Livorno conceived a large exhibition of his sculptures and resolved to test the legend that he had thrown several works rejected
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Ed Buryn's Book “Vagabonding in Europe and North Africa”, Revised Edition
I did not expect to meet Nikita Mikhalkov here
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Interiors of Marie Antoinette's apartments at Fontainebleau, designed by Pierre Rousseau in 1785–1786
Marie Antoinette's apartments at Fontainebleau and the design for their decoration by Pierre Rousseau, 1785-86.
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Matisse exhibition in Lyubertsy with 120 lithographs and cut-outs, 30 October to 24 January
Henri Matisse in Lyubertsy 120 portraits and cut-outs by Matisse will be shown at an exhibition in the Lyubertsy Museum and Exhibition Complex. The combination of 120 lithographs with fragments of Matisse's texts reveals him as both artist and philosopher: for him art was not merely a
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Nancy Cunard and Her Anthology “Negro”, Published in London in 1934
A title that, by today's standards, is seditious Nancy Cunard, heiress to the British shipping line Cunard Line, was a poet and a publisher, and in February 1934 she brought out, with the London house of Wishart, the anthology “Negro”, Negro Anthology 1931-1933. Cunard dedicated the book