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Pepelats art object built by Uralkhimmash welders stands on the plant grounds

A pepelats, as is well known, is very rarely adapted for horizontal travel across the surface of a planet. Before us is a classic model of the civilian cylindrical pepelats, built by the welders of the Uralkhimmash plant. The art object stands on the plant's grounds and serves

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Everyone will remember a VGIK student like this

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Step Into Paradise, There Seems to Have Been a Mistake

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Perhaps Odysseus is not the best name for a boat after all?

Perhaps Odysseus is not the best name for a boat after all? At least if you are not setting out on a dreadful wandering that will last twenty years and bring you and your loved ones a sea of suffering

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Tolstoy Cousins Alexey Konstantinovich and Leo Married Women of the Same Name

Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy's wife was called Sofya Andreyevna Tolstaya, just like the wife of Leo Tolstoy. Alexei Konstantinovich and Leo Nikolayevich were second cousins to one another

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Sketch of an animal's head on the draft of the poem “Andrey Chenier” of 1825

How about this self-portrait of Pushkin as a horse? Drawing on the draft of the poem “Andrei Chénier”, 1825

Collage of screenshots: a Change.org petition page against Netflix's Cleopatra show and a news headline about the petition's removal.

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Change.org removes petition against Netflix show “Queen Cleopatra” with 51,625 signatures

Well, well: the petition to axe the history-falsifying show about a black Cleopatra has simply been taken down. How democratic

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Don't Worry, at This Battle You Will Be the Handsomest Man on the Field

Rod Steiger as Napoleon on the set of Sergei Bondarchuk's epic historical film "Waterloo", about Bonaparte's last great battle

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The Hôtel Le Grand Mazarin in Paris has lovely rooms, but I would rather not have a carpet hanging over my head, even if it were the most thoroughly cleaned in the world and went by the name of tapestry

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Netflix film by producer Jada Pinkett Smith on a Black Cleopatra and the Ptolemaic dynasty

⚡️Comrades, Cleopatra Was Black⚡️. At least, that is what is claimed in Netflix's new "documentary", produced by Jada Pinkett Smith, the very wife of Will Smith who cheated on him with their son's friend, who began crying "racism! racism!" in 2016 when

Black and white photograph of an elderly bearded man in a hat and dark clothes shaking hands with a near-naked athlete standing before him.

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Eadweard Muybridge shaking hands with an anonymous athlete, photograph of about 1887

Are You Quite Sure You're a Photographer? In the hat: one of the pioneers of English photography, Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904). The athlete in shorts has preferred to remain anonymous. Photograph of c. 1887

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The English queen carries on with her book club, and this time recommends Gabriel García Márquez's novel "Love in the Time of Cholera"

The English queen carries on with her book club, and this time recommends Gabriel García Márquez's novel "Love in the Time of Cholera". Well, I hardly need explain what it was in the story of a feeling rekindled between two elderly former lovers that touched Camilla.