Dark porphyry group of four armoured figures embracing at the corner of a building clad in multicoloured marble, with water lapping at its base.

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The Four Tetrarchs on the corner of St Mark's Basilica in Venice, with floodwater

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National Library of Israel and Google to digitise and upload 120,000 books in Hebrew, Yiddish, Latin, French and Russian

A long gallery with white columns and arches on the right is covered in water that reflects the columns. On the left are a peeling brick wall and benches.

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Flooded arcaded gallery of a courtyard with stone columns

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Venice's monuments have suffered badly, but the water has still not receded

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Recently, outside the Moscow government building, I saw a lone picketer with a placard: "We feared the 90s, and got the 30s instead"

Recently, outside the Moscow government building, I saw a lone picketer with a placard: "We feared the 90s, and got the 30s instead". There is something in that. At the very least, it holds out hope for the 50s

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1832: Charles Warren, a Dorset father of three and modest proprietor of an acre of potatoes, lately widowed, seeks a woman to tend the pigs while he is at work

Page of an old English dictionary with the entry Bonfire, a fire made for triumph or exultation, with quotations from Spenser, South and Gay.

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Bonfire as a celebratory fire rather than fireworks, in an English dictionary entry

The bonfire is a fire made for triumph or jubilation, in other words not a firework but a festive blaze. And quite rightly: what is a holiday without one?

A weathered bench carved from a massive log stands on a paved sidewalk beside a cast-iron post and a planter. Fallen autumn leaves lie around it.

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Old bench carved from a single log on a city pavement

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A Nun Feeds the Cats on the Majolica of the Neapolitan Religious Complex of Santa Chiara

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Is It Possible Not to Love Newspapers?

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A Rather Fine Element for a Ladies' Halloween Costume from the 1920s

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Amen

There is no post text here to translate: the body supplied contains only the single word «amen», with no markup, images or links. If this is a deliberate placeholder, the translation is simply "Amen". If it is not, please send the full Russian post and I shall translate