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"Mummy, mummy, they said at the museum that Mayakovsky killed himself because of Lilya Brik." "No, he killed himself because of me."
Veronika Vitoldovna Polonskaya, the last love of Vladimir Mayakovsky
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And what if Ebenezer Scrooge were put through our weather?
The old skinflint is played this time by Johnny Depp. The film is due out in autumn 2026
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A Good Winter's Day to You, and May the Epstein Files Be the Worst Thing We Learn This Year!
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"Doctor Zhivago" read by Kontsevich takes 25.5 hours, read by Borzunov 22.5 hours
See what the life-giving tempo and rhythm of speech can do
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When you are a humble owner of a transnational corporation and have been invited round for pizza
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Rothschild and Co., or When the Common Man First Began to Suspect That All These So-Called Conspiracy Theories Were Not Theories at All
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The Russian Federation has officially declined to call itself the successor of the Russian Empire, so as not to pay the debts of its pre-revolutionary obligations
The Russian Federation has officially declined to call itself the successor of the Russian Empire, so as not to pay the debts of its pre-revolutionary obligations. The USSR, for its part, had repudiated the foreign debt back in 1918. You understand, talk of the great past is another matter
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In the Twenty-First Century, Helen of Troy Is Barely Recognisable!
In the twenty-first century, Helen of Troy is barely recognisable! In Christopher Nolan's Odyssey, the most beautiful woman in the world is played by the Kenyan actress Lupita Nyong'o
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Is the Grenadier Swaggering Before Napoleon, or Merely Bristling?
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Should any boyar, okolnichy, Duma man, clerk (dyak), or other judge, whether for bribes, for friendship, or for enmity, convict the innocent plaintiff or defendant and acquit the guilty, and the matter be proven true, then from such judges the plaintiff's
Should any boyar, okolnichy, Duma man, clerk (dyak), or other judge, whether for bribes, for friendship, or for enmity, convict the innocent plaintiff or defendant and acquit the guilty, and the matter be proven true, then from such judges the plaintiff's claim shall be recovered threefold and given
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Caesar replied with amusement, on seeing the decrepit aspect of one weary and broken soldier of his guard, who had come to ask for leave in order to die: "So you suppose that you are still alive?"
Seneca
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