A sheet with a quotation from Ambrose of Optina about talking in church, taped to a wooden door.

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Notice with Ambrose of Optina's instruction on silence in church on the door of a Moscow church

Nota bene on the doors of a Moscow church. Words of the saints, for the attention of those fond of a chat within the walls of the church

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Thanks to John Richardson (1934-2011) and Raquel Welch (1940-2023), who died yesterday at the age of 83, and to their appearance in the 1967 film One Million Years B.C., primitive people will remain in my imagination for ever with impeccable…

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Flawless Victory, Tuba win!

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Of the true world of ideas, people can judge only by the dim shadows their telephones cast on the wall of the cave

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The Renaissance Pets of the American Artist Diane Angstadt Wish You a Good Mood

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American Curial Cardinal Raymond Burke Has Definitely Won the Battle of Images with Rihanna

Porcelain figure of a bearded man in pink drapery holding a nude child to his mouth, displayed in a museum case.

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Porcelain figure from the Wallendorf manufactory, made in the 1770s

Never Ask Saturn What He Had for Lunch. Porcelain figure, Wallendorf manufactory, 1770s.

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What One May Write About

It is forbidden to write: of the bureaucrat, Of the officers, of the soldier, Of the strike, of the movement, Of the clergy, of the ferment, Of the peasant, of the ministry, Of the execution, of the Cossacks' brutality, Of the police, of arrests, Of robberies, of manifestos! But

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The Mona Lisa in the New York Subway

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When you wear your very best to the occasion, come what may

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Lads, does anyone know what tank this is?

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A View of the Acropolis

A View of the Acropolis. Caricature by Boris Efimov, 1962