Two women with microphones sit in leather armchairs on a small bookstore stage. Screens show a book cover, copies are stacked on a shelf, and an audience watches.

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Presentation of Sati Spivakova's Neskuchnaya Klassika at the Dostoevsky bookstore

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Thank You, Lord

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The mummified cat and mouse of the late seventeenth century in the Museo Correr, Venice: pets of the celebrated commander, Doge Francesco Morosini

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I don't know about you, but I adore footnotes like this on Wikipedia

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Nothing special, just the elderly Henri Matisse painting a picture with a brush on a telescopic handle

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If things in the States go badly wrong, one can take refuge in a cave like this one in Abington Township, Pennsylvania, where, as a matter of principle, the eminent Anglo-American abolitionist and political activist Benjamin Lay lived for many years in th

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Abraham Lincoln at the beginning of his presidency, in 1861, and at the end, in 1865

A man in a tailcoat with an orange and blue sash and orders stands in a crimson velvet robe trimmed with ermine. Around him are drapes, a candle chandelier and a marble floor.

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Formal portrait of a man in an ermine-trimmed robe in a palace hall

An elderly fair-haired woman in a pearl necklace and a dark dress with a golden pattern smiles at the camera.

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What Princess Beatrix Looks Like at the Age of 82

Princess Beatrix is 82 now, and this is roughly how she looks. A beauty 🥰

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Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands and Scarlett Johansson

Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands and Scarlett Johansson. Although in other photos there is no such resemblance

Brick apartment facade with arched loggias seen through autumn trees; a banner on one balcony reads “Нет метро под домом” (No metro under the house).

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Apartment building with arched loggias and a banner on a balcony in autumn

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I suppose it is very silly that the sight of this dead boy on the lid of a 3rd-century AD sarcophagus brings to mind the warning not to lie on one's side, though in this particular case, of course, any wolf would break its teeth

I suppose it is very silly that the sight of this dead boy on the lid of a 3rd-century AD sarcophagus brings to mind the warning not to lie on one's side, though in this particular case, of course, any wolf would break its teeth. Maffei Lapidary