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As for the ladies' fever for fashion weeks and new collections, I can only recall the words of Leo Tolstoy in "A Calendar of Wisdom":. Nothing stands so much in the way of a good life as the concern that one's clothes should be handsome
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On the Treatment of Israelites in Persia, from the Observations of Gaspard Drouville during His Persian Journey of 1812 and 1813. The Persians live as good neighbours with all Christians; they even often go to them to drink wine, while they hate the J***s excessively. It is well known
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The Children and the Young Raven. The children found an injured young raven in the forest and nursed it back to health. It became quite tame and lived in the geologists' camp until the middle of summer. Shortly before the camp was due to move from the Arkhangelsk Region
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When Helen Rogers Reid, editor of the New York Herald Tribune, asked Churchill at a White House dinner about British colonisation and the fate of the Indians, touching on the then much-discussed question of Indian independence, he replied:. - Which Indians do you mean? Those whose population has grown considerably
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Having a look inside the once much-discussed hotel right beside the Palace of Versailles, Le Grand Contrôle Château de Versailles. The hotel's unique selling point is its location literally on the palace grounds, that is, within the boundaries of the estate, behind the gates of the palace
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Watercolour by Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, 1841 Alexei Stolypin was Mikhail Lermontov's first cousin once removed and a close friend. Alexei was the son of Arkady Alexeyevich Stolypin, Procurator-General of the Senate, who was the brother of Lermontov's grandmother. On completing the School of Guards Sub-
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And not a Peking duck in sight
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In Cairo the shops stay open until nine in the evening, and sometimes later, depending on how trade is going. Light, colour, shouting, noise and movement stun the senses. Everything shouts: the Arabs shout, the cars hoot, the hawkers shout, the donkeys shout, but loudest of all shout the stallholders,
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The 1980 Olympic Games at Lake Placid were accompanied by a serious scandal, one of the loudest in the history of the Winter Games, over the conditions in which the American side housed the athletes. The Olympic Village was set up on the grounds of a prison. Some American sources