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Lenin on the Rampage
The Croatian artist Jozo Kljaković, 1924
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How people watched the solar eclipse of 12 August 1654
Observing a Solar Eclipse in the Seventeenth Century. On 12 August 1654, people looked at the sun through smoked glass; the more resourceful used a mirror, and the very cunning a dish or a bucket of water.
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A goose differs from a gander in that if you seize her by the head she does not cry out, especially a young one
Art · Museums · Humour
Giorgione's Judith and Vladimir Petrovich Kozin's Judith
Photograph from the series "Domestic History of ISKVA. Photo Performance", 1999 In a kitchen, beside the stove, a man lies on his back; above him stands a woman, her left foot planted on the man's head. In her left hand is a white stick. Museum "
NB! · Architecture · Observations · People · Humour
You ask why I don't care for Le Corbusier?
You ask why I don't care for Le Corbusier? Because he led us from the first to the second
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If your children smoke and neither pleading nor punishment will cure them of it
Art · Moscow · Humour
How to Tell That You Are Looking at a Sculpture by Alexander Burganov
📌 A column, or the capital of a column, is present 📌 There is a human hand 📌 In place of a head, some object or other
Archive · In the Press · Observations · Humour
In the Western press, Lenin is stubbornly called Nicholas in the 1920s, in the 30s, and even in the 50s and 60s
For example, The Times Record in March 1953, in a piece on the death of Stalin, publishes a photograph from Lenin's funeral, with the caption: This scene shows Nicolai Lenin lying in state at the House of Unions in January, 1924, His wife, Krupskaya and sister Maria stand
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Ganymede did not put up much of a struggle against abduction by Zeus
Peter Paul Rubens
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These horses are sunning themselves this summer on behalf of all of us
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As a history graduate, Mark Rutte could not simply walk past a stack of documents left lying about in a White House corridor
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