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In Kazakhstan, Przewalski's horse, described in 1879, will be called kerkulan and kertagy

Przewalski's Horse Renamed in Kazakhstan. Equus ferus przewalskii, made known to science and described by the Russian traveller and geographer Nikolai Przhevalsky in 1879, is henceforth to be called in Kazakhstan "Przewalski's horse – kerkulan, kertagy". I would suggest coming up with a name for

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The Lake School of poets, its name and Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey

A Peredelkino leaflet asks: who among us does not know the Lake Poets? Still, in case there are doubters, the poetic fellowship that emerged at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries was called the Lake School after the Lake District in the north-west of England, where the

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And what will the round-earthers make of this tortoise?

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And These People Will Be Judging Your Restaurant

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Paranormal experts suggest a werewolf portal in Cannock Chase forest in Staffordshire

Paranormal experts say that English woodland may hide a werewolf portal. Cannock Chase in Staffordshire is known for its eerie sightings of supernatural beings, including ghosts, werewolves and the notorious “black-eyed child”. Surprised? Not in the slightest. England is as much a hub of the uncanny as Bohemia and

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Vladey has opened a delightful exhibition to mark Pavel Pepperstein's joining the glittering Pleiad of painters of feasts and bards of the banquet table

The exhibition is called "Dinners", and every work depicts a dinner that might have taken place in the various halls and museums of contemporary art. Among the guests at these dinners one can make out Vladimir Lenin and Kazimir Malevich; Yayoi Kusama, whom the artist has surrealistically flattered

An elderly man in white vestments and a white skullcap drinks beer from a glass mug, beside a person in black holding another mug.

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Saint Albert the Great on wine, milk and beer as both food and drink

Pope Benedict XVI (1927–2022) and a Mug of Beer. As Saint Albert the Great once said, wine, milk and beer are both food and drink

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“Boris Godunov” from Academia as a gift to a delegate of a trade union conference in 1936

They really knew how to give presents in those days. A dedicatory inscription to a Delegate of the first district trade-union conference of the union of primary and secondary school workers of the RSFSR, 22 September 1936, from the Krasnogvardeisky District Committee of the city of Moscow. And on

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You might just as well have said you've got your hands full

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Inspiring Examples of Import Substitution:

In January 1921 Khodasevich recalled that Gorky had treated him to chocolate made from sunflower husks, without any sugar.

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It is held that from the 1980s onwards Italian cinema found itself in crisis; among the reasons cited is the proliferation of private television channels, which drew the viewer's attention away from the cinemas, and as a consequence…

In 2007, during the Cannes Festival, Quentin Tarantino, a great admirer of Italian cinema of the 1960s and 1970s, described the state of affairs in Italian film as tragic, because the work of recent years strikes him as samey, dreary and soul-destroying: "They are about either boys coming

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And here comes Emmanuel Macron in the Mercator projection

And here comes Emmanuel Macron in the Mercator projection. A splendid photograph for explaining why the scale on Mercator maps is not constant, and why the true area of countries differs from their area in the projection the farther one moves from the equator. This comes from the function that