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I Don't Like Lenin
I don't like Lenin. I just don't. Not a stylish sort of fellow. I can only express my respects to the boy Tolka. The children's magazine “Yozh” [Hedgehog], January 1930
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A trip to the Russian Post Office taught me that in 2016 and 2017 25-rouble coins were issued to mark the World Cup, bearing the trophy, the tournament emblem and Zabivaka the wolf, and that they are worth anything from 50 to 7,500 roubles depending on ra
A trip to the Russian Post Office taught me that in 2016 and 2017 25-rouble coins were issued to mark the World Cup, bearing the trophy, the tournament emblem and Zabivaka the wolf, and that they are worth anything from 50 to 7,500 roubles depending on rarity. In
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Barbie's Friend Midge, 1962 Edition
Barbie's friend Midge, 1962 edition. Midge was conceived as a less flamboyant version of Barbie, with lighter make-up, less showy clothes and the looks of a woman not quite so grown-up as Barbie. The outcome is what you see here: a dame with pursed lips and
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Isn't It a Little Early for You to Be Skiing, Young Man?
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Sculptor Alexander Sederbach created the figure of Diogenes for Lacock Abbey in 1755
Does the statue of Gandalf in an English abbey ring no bells? In fact, this is how in 1755 the sculptor Alexander Cederbach envisaged the figure of Diogenes of Sinope for the adornment of Lacock Abbey in the county of Wiltshire in England. The lantern in the sage's
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When They Ask What I Do with All These Books
Engravings by Albrecht Dürer, 1498, and Vasily Koren, 1690s. Saint John eating the book. Revelation 10:9 “And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the
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BBC News reports an elephant on the loose near a supermarket in southern Italy
Are elephants roaming Italy again? All we needed was another Punic War
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Queen Victoria in life and Queen Victoria in a drawing by Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Queen Victoria in life and Queen Victoria in a drawing by Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Oh, these British artists
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An Eighteenth-Century Barbie: The English Poet Christopher Anstey and His Daughter in a Portrait by William Hoare
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The only videoconference I would actually like to attend
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Albert Einstein Sunbathing
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