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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

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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The legend of the dog Fram and the fate of the dogs on Georgy Sedov's North Pole expedition

Remember the boy in the film "Podkidysh" who dreamed of becoming, at the very least, a border-guard dog? He probably simply did not know the story of the legendary hound Fram. Fram belonged to Georgy Sedov, who perished during the ill-starred expedition to the North Pole

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A French Soup Tureen of the Sixteenth Century in the Shape of a Cauliflower

A French soup tureen of the sixteenth century in the shape of a cauliflower. With its own snail, naturally. This is France, after all

Black-and-white photograph of a dry riverbed with rock ledges, heaps of broken stone and a fenced path on the left.

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Riverbed without water and heaps of fragmented rock in a black-and-white photograph

In 1969 Niagara Falls Was Halted for Several Months, and What Had Lain Hidden Under Water for Thousands of Years Came to Light. Nothing supernatural, however: a riverbed and fragments of rock

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The narwhal's horn is a modified male tooth and is not used to break ice

The narwhal's horn is in fact a modified tooth in the male. Males of this marine mammal have two teeth in all; the left one grows out spirally twisted and can reach two or three metres in length. In females these tusks do not erupt at all. Despite

Painting of a child in a white Pierrot costume and black cap hugging a large black cat standing on its hind legs.

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Théophile Steinlen’s 1889 painting “Pierrot and the Cat” and his link to the Paris cabaret Le Chat Noir

Leave the Cat Alone, Boy! “Pierrot and the Cat”, 1889, a painting by Théophile Steinlen, the Swiss artist and adherent of Art Nouveau, who was a lively presence in the cultural life of Paris, not least thanks to his collaboration with the famous cabaret Le Chat Noir

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Time magazine covers predicting global cooling (1973-1979) and global warming (1987-2007)

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How Many Times Must It Be Said: Snails Do Not Carry the Plague!

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Keep this little tit-provider and she will bring you an unexpected profit

Keep this little tit-provider and she will bring you an unexpected profit. Or a mouse, it is not certain

A dark, glossy sculpture of an animal's head with closed eyes lies on a white marble table above a terracotta tiled floor.

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Sculpture of an animal's head with closed eyes on a marble base

Nicolas Darrot, The Great Bear. A beautiful but very sad sculpture

The cratered edge of the Moon in the foreground and Saturn with its rings seen edge-on against the dark sky.

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American astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy photographs Saturn emerging from behind the Moon

Another shot of Saturn emerging from behind the Moon, taken by the American astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy from the summit of a volcano. It is striking how cramped the universe turns out to be: our neighbouring planets are, quite literally, a lens's throw away