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"Big Clay No. 4" is being removed from Bolotnaya Embankment

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It Turns Out That Biden's Hyperborea Is Neither a Diagnosis nor Even a Country, but a Plant of the Daisy Family

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The Incredible Detail of Simon Marmion's "Scenes from the Life of Saint Bertin", 1459

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Jean Baudrillard and His Mad Bookcase

Jean Baudrillard and his mad bookcase. Or rather, not a bookcase at all, but some sort of book-trap. Just try reading without being buried under an avalanche of books.

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Russian Headdresses as One of the Most Powerful Impressions of High Fashion

A sick tsar sits on his bed with his hands over his ears, facing ghostly figures in armour, women and children, while two figures in black monastic robes stand at right.

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Mikhail Klodt's drawing of Ivan the Terrible and the shades of his victims, Stavropol

"Ivan the Terrible and the Shades of His Victims", Mikhail Klodt, paper, ink, gouache. Stavropol Regional Museum of Fine Arts

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Makovka: How It Is Done

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Muscovites Have Grown So Pampered That They Have Filled the Drainage Canal with Matches

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Borges at the Sorbonne in 1978

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Kernels of maize that look like precious stones

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And in literature this is called a romantic attachment

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