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Bill Clinton Shakes John F. Kennedy's Hand in 1963

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Versailles and Arkhangelskoye

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The Olympic Flame in the Louvre

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A Telegram Admin, Then?

Black-and-white photo of a boy drinking from a cup on a chain at a fountain with sculptures on a city street.

NB! · Archive · Observations · Mores · Paris

A Paris drinking fountain in the 20th and 21st centuries

A drinking fountain in Paris in the 20th century and in the 21st. From which century would you care to take a sip?

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A Lego Set for Bastille Day

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Naples, photograph by Ferdinando Scianna, 1997

Naples, photograph by Ferdinando Scianna, 1997. On the wall is a work by the painter Ernest Pignon-Ernest

Two-photo collage: a bell lying among stone rubble, and an arcaded Renaissance building with heaps of debris and a fallen carved block in front.

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Ruins of the St Mark's Campanile and the damaged Biblioteca Marciana, Venice

Still from a TV quiz show: a woman and a man in glasses, with a question about the Holy Synod's ban in 1916 and four answer options below.

NB! · Faith · Mores · Society

The Holy Synod banned the New Year tree in 1916 amid anti-German feeling in the First World War

In 1916 the Holy Synod banned the New Year tree. A tradition that had come from Germany was swept up in the general anti-German hysteria of the First World War

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Oleg Pavlovich Tabakov and the Case of “What Is Permitted to Jupiter Is Not Permitted to the Ox”

NB! · Archive · Moscow · Museums · Heritage

David in the Italian Courtyard of the Pushkin Museum during the Great Patriotic War

Close-up of an ancient-style marble bust: a man with a thick curly beard, moustache and short hair, eyes without pupils. Another bust is visible behind.

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