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An Airport Is Proposed to Be Named After Queen Camilla
It is proposed to name an airport after Queen Camilla. I suggest we confine ourselves to the baggage reclaim hall
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In Vancouver, a passer-by called the police to rescue a man from a contemporary sculpture
Police and firefighters broke down the door of the Access Gallery to rescue a man whose legs stuck out from behind a counter and were visible through the window. But there was no one to save: the guardians of public order found a sculpture by the artist Alyssa Pierre, Untitled
NB! · Moscow · Observations · Science · Humour
The Achievements of Elon Musk Fly Over Yury Gagarin Square
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How right he is!
I no longer know what words to use to explain to my acquaintances, and mostly to people I barely know, that I would rather not embrace and kiss in place of an ordinary greeting; each time it is an awkward situation
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"Smell", Jan Miense Molenaer, 1637
"Smell", Jan Miense Molenaer, 1637. Collection of the Mauritshuis I do, of course, understand that with his series of the five senses the Dutch master, with his characteristic humour and earthy realism, invites us to forget about lofty allegories and maidens with bouquets of flowers, but even so,
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Should we worry that tension between France and Italy is rising as sharply as during the Second World War, given both countries' highly dubious military achievements in those years?
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Call Drobyshevsky!
Call Drobyshevsky! Just joking, he has known all this for ages. A Japanese-Taiwanese research group has analysed a femur and a tibia from the bed of the Penghu Channel off Taiwan and determined that they belonged to Denisovans who lived about 45,000 years ago. But judging by the
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I read a funny item in the newsletter of the Prehistoric Society of Great Britain: for forty years Ireland believed that the oldest bones of a domestic cow, dated to before…
I read a funny item in the newsletter of the Prehistoric Society of Great Britain: for forty years Ireland believed that the oldest bones of a domestic cow, dated to before 4000 BC, had been found at the Ferriter's Cove site in County Kerry, and that this was
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No Date Yet for Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner's Visit to Russia
But there is one for Kanye West
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Meet the ambassadors of Norway to Estonia and of Poland to the Netherlands
Meet the ambassadors of Norway to Estonia and of Poland to the Netherlands. Life, Netflix style
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Dear Crocodile, We Need You Very Much
Dear Crocodile, we need you very much. We have a little river. Next to it there is a big chemical factory. It is spoiling the river, and soon there will be no river, only one big inkwell. We are writing to you because you are held in great esteem. Come
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