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Trump has berated the UN for pocketing several billion on renovating the very building that houses its Secretariat. One has the feeling that the embezzlement of repair funds is the most elementary corruption practice in the world, running from the endless levies at school for redecorating a classroom to, as
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The most interesting historical angle is a view of the universe in which Bulgakov's (let us not forget this, for all the charm of Leonid Gaidai) inventor-engineer Timofeev, and Nikolai Ivanovich rather than Alexander Sergeyevich, upon inventing the time machine, meets the Briton Doctor Who. Naturally, it
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René Guénon writes that "intellect" once meant the perception of transcendent realities, and introduces the Sanskrit term buddhi, all but forgotten in the West. He explains that buddhi is the faculty of glimpsing another world, whose traces appear in the soul as intellectual intuitions. Apparently, the term is
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There is a very amusing theory that Kate Middleton, Princess of Wales, is a Rothschild on her mother's side. Her mother, née Goldsmith, is supposed to have come from the Goldsmith-Rothschild family. The theory is often refuted, but then such a fact would hardly be something to
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Christie's is closing its digital art and NFT department. One rather suspects they were the only ones left who remembered what it was. The decision, well, who would have thought? is connected both with the global slump in interest in NFTs and with broader shifts in the art
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The Birth of an Idea, 1920. The American artist Norwood MacGilvary. Could not put it better.
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An art object in the style of the "Apocalypse Quilted Jackets" by the Krasnoyarsk artist Vasily Slonov has become a dessert at the local restaurant Tunguska. The pieces of cotton wool are inedible. The dessert proper, the blade of the knife, is made of ice cream with white
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A Christian-Arab game of chess. Al-Andalus, 13th century. If Black's move is H2, White has a fair chance of drawing the game. Failing that, we are left with victory in the Reconquista, which is not at all bad either.
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