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Like this photo of John Paul II playing baseball during his visit to the US?

John Paul II really was a sportsman, and a keen one, but he did not play baseball, and that is not him in the photo. The picture is genuine, but it shows Gene Greytak, an American estate agent who made his name on his resemblance to the pontiff and worked

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Patriarch Kirill on skis in Switzerland in 1971 and Pope John Paul II on skis in northern Italy in 1984

The heads of the largest churches are bound together by snow. John Paul II skied all his life: first in Poland, in the Tatras, and then, having become pope, he slipped away in secret more than a hundred times to the Italian mountains, to Gran Sasso and Adamello, and gave

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For a hundred years El Mirón Cave in the Cantabrian mountains was judged of no promise to science and used to keep goats

For a hundred years El Mirón Cave in the Cantabrian mountains was judged of no promise to science and used to keep goats. In 1996 Lawrence Straus and Manuel González Morales began to dig at a spot abandoned since 1903, and over thirty years they drew out of this one

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Well, That's a Turn-Up!

Well, that's a turn-up! Candace Owens in the studio of "Parsuna" with Vladimir Legoyda. The mission "from Twitter to the Paterikon" has officially begun. Congratulations to the team, and to Vladimir Romanovich personally! We await the broadcast, we are preparing our dogmatic remarks,

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Brooklyn artist Jeremy Olson dresses the windows of the Hermès flagship on Madison Avenue in New York as a surrealist installation: a body sinking into a sofa, surrounded by biomorphic furniture and lamps

Brooklyn artist Jeremy Olson has dressed the windows of the Hermès flagship on Madison Avenue in New York as a surrealist installation: a body sinking into a sofa, surrounded by biomorphic furniture and lamps. Hermès wanted to play on its signature motifs and the equestrian theme, hence the appearance of

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The Dutch royal house audited its own collection and found stolen goods in the Crown's holdings

The Fund for the Royal Private Collections commissioned an appraisal of roughly a thousand objects. Under suspicion are a golden amulet necklace and historical weapons from Indonesia, acquired in the colonial era. I can just picture how the Dutch East India Company would have laughed at so modest a discovery.

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Artists Jest

Artists Jest. Vasily Vereshchagin

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Young man, are you quite all right?

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Helen the Fair, Who Really Did Manage to Set the Whole World at Odds

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Anti-British propaganda in Japan in 1941 plays on Churchill's initials W.C., the international sign for a lavatory, water closet

Anti-British propaganda in Japan in 1941 plays on Churchill's initials W.C., the international sign for a lavatory, water closet. The gesture, frequently found in manga, anime and comedy scenes as an exaggerated reaction to something foul-smelling, may in the broader context of visual culture be

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The Mysterious Russian Soul

The Mysterious Russian Soul: Twenty-First-Century Edition

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Dental calculus is the last kind of stone an archaeologist expects to find, yet Elena Fiorin and her colleagues have published measurements of mercury concentrations not in bones but in the dental plaque of those buried at two leprosaria: St Leonard in…

76 samples of dental plaque and 45 of soil showed that the inmates of the leprosaria carried between 0.11 and 9.7 mg/kg of mercury, that is, several times more than the control groups from ordinary cemeteries. This confirms that lepers were indeed treated with mercury. It was