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Karamelka the pony from Tsarskoye Selo leads among five contest finalists

Ministry of Culture Holds Contest for the Title of Chief Pet-Guardian of Cultural Institutions. The finalists are Karamelka the pony from Tsarskoye Selo, Thomas the cat from the Ivan Pavlovich Bardin Museum of Science and Technology, Mashunya the cat from the Pskov City Cultural Centre, Dymka the cat from

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Prince Andrey in Speransky’s Commission and the Codes of Napoleon, Justinian and Hammurabi

The Legislative Commission has existed for a hundred and fifty years, has cost millions and has accomplished nothing. Do you remember how Prince Andrei did not wish to join the commission for the compilation of laws, pleading that it required a legal education, which he did not possess? And Speransky,

Black and white photograph of a woman with short dark hair in a dark top, sitting on a sofa and looking at the camera.

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Elizabeth Jane Howard on her giftedness and her skill at sleeping late

"I'm not lazy. I'm simply very gifted, but instead of being good at music or mathematics, I am skilled at sleeping late" Elizabeth Jane Howard, writer, actress and model

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I don't know about you, but for me the titles of Lenin's works are literally a set of moods for every day:

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back "Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder Materialism and Empirio-Criticism Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism What Is to Be Done, at Last

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A strange science all the same, this physiognomy of yours

Drone view of a cleared strip of reddish earth for a road crossing green Amazon forest and a river.

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Amazon forest cleared for a road to the COP30 climate summit

The Amazon forest is being felled to build a road to an environmental summit. This world has no chance 🤦🏿‍♀️

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Fan Fiction About Me and Ivleeva Is the Finest Thing Written in 1851

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Betty Ford, wife of the 38th President of the United States, Gerald Ford, dances on a table in the White House in 1977

I meant to be indignant and to write that it is unthinkable for a figure of such rank to dance on tables, but then I recalled the photograph of Galina Brezhneva dancing on a table, not in the White House, admittedly, but in her own flat, at a private gathering

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The Naked Party

The Naked Party. The Beginning

Black-and-white photograph of six young men in suits sitting and standing on stone steps near an iron fence.

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American university students in a photograph from the 1950s

The 1950s. Students of an American university whose name may not be mentioned

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In Jacques Offenbach's operetta "Orpheus in the Underworld", Pluto arrives on Olympus with a stick of sausage and on skis, and the Olympian gods, tired of ambrosia, are ready to stage a revolution

In Jacques Offenbach's operetta "Orpheus in the Underworld", Pluto arrives on Olympus with a stick of sausage and on skis, and the Olympian gods, tired of ambrosia, are ready to stage a revolution. Jupiter, meanwhile, turns into a fly, seduces Eurydice and gives himself up to