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Pushkin. Tea from China and Ceylon, flavoured with citrus fruits (orange and lemon). Very popular in Russia. You cannot imagine how popular
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Meanwhile, Harry Nuriev has made a merchandise collection for the Louvre, with glittering notebooks, plates at €390 and a Winged Victory of Samothrace coated in silver paint
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This is what a check-in at Notre-Dame looks like
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What Do You Know About Fashion?
Mikhail Belomlinsky, Thank You for Your Purchase! 1975
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French verb form for unconfirmed facts, illustrated by the Snowden asylum report
What I also like is that French journalists simply stuff their "hard-hitting" pieces with the conditionnel, the conditional mood, though not with the particle "by" as in Russian, but literally with the particle "allegedly" It is a dodge to avoid complaints should the
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I had a dog, and I loved her; She ate a piece of meat, and I loved her; She peed on the rug, and I loved her; She chewed up my slippers, and I loved her…
I had a dog, and I loved her, She ate a piece of meat, and I loved her; She peed on the rug, and I loved her; She chewed up my slippers, and I loved her… And I said to that dog: "You see, I put up with everything!
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A car in a papal mitre rides on a popemobile that is also a car
In the Universe of "Cars", There Is a Pope. And he has not only a papal mitre but also a popemobile, which is to say that he uses as his means of transport, quite literally, creatures of his own kind.
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Sacralizers made from everyday objects to protect the inner from the outer
Viktor Pivovarov: "Sacralisers", 1979. Sacralisers are special protective devices for guarding the "inner" against the "outer". Sacralisers may be the most ordinary household objects. Equipped with a sacraliser (a frying pan hung on the nose, say, and shoe brushes on the ears), one may
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Do confess: is anyone else, in this sort of weather, hearing Paulina Andreyeva start up Konstantin Meladze's song "Ottepel" ("Thaw") in their head, or did the broadcasts of Channel One make such an indelible impression on me alone?
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Pushkin's 1828 letter to Delvig about children expecting to meet a sugar poet
The other day a neighbour gave a gathering, and I was due to attend. The children of his kinswoman, a spoilt set of urchins, insisted on going too; their mother brought them raisins and prunes and thought to slip away from them quietly, but Pyotr Markovich (Poltoratsky) stirred them up;
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The heroine of Pushkin’s “Winter Morning” in poems by Zhukovsky, Lvov and Kornilov
One is tempted to write: time to wake, beauty, wake! Let us try to wake my terracotta Venus together. Frost and sunshine; a glorious day! You are still slumbering, lovely friend: Time to wake, beauty, wake! Open your eyes, closed in languor, To meet the northern Aurora, Appear as the
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