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Good Lord, how touching!
Good Lord, how touching! A memorial notice of the death of Harold Godwinson, the last Saxon king of England, in the Hastings Observer
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A table of virtues for daily self-examination following Pythagoras
No Life Coach Will Ever Teach You This. Draw up a table of virtues, and whenever you commit an offence against any one of them, put a little mark in the appropriate column. The moment you complete a bingo card, congratulations: you have lost
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Should Earthlings Offer the Cosmos Darya Dontsova and Barbara Cartland, or the Brontë Sisters and George Sand After All?
Should Earthlings offer the cosmos Darya Dontsova and Barbara Cartland, or the Brontë sisters and George Sand after all? That is the question
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English chamber pot with a figure of Napoleon inside, early 19th century
Chamber pot with a figure of Napoleon. 1803-05, England. Can you imagine how afraid the English were of this man?
Art · Observations · Rome · Humour
Runaway horses at Trajan's Column in Rome in a painting by Giacomo van Lint
As Your Literature Teacher Would Say, Here the Bolter Bolted. I love this genre scene by Giacomo van Lint, set by Trajan's Column in Rome. The horses have bolted and cannot now be stopped without a coachman's help. But there are no coachmen on the box.
Observations · Science · Nature · Ethnography
Third supermoon of the year on 17 October and traditional names of the Moon
A Moon such as tonight's was called by the American Indians the Moon of Dying Grass. The European tradition, for its part, has kept the name of the Hunter's Moon, since by its light game could be spotted with ease even at night. This is the
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As You Will Have Gathered from the Title of the Play, the Hero Stayed in Moscow for More Than Three Days
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The decision to mount construction cranes right on the towers of the skyscraper on Kudrinskaya Square looks very handsome indeed
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Why Has the Curtain from the Moscow Art Theatre Been Hung in the Okolo Theatre?
Yury Pogrebnichko, together with the actors Alexey Chernyshev and Maxim Solopov, has staged Hamlet. Regulars of the Okolo Dома Stanislavskogo theatre will remember the Hamlet interludes, scenes and stray lines in The Cherry Orchard and, indeed, in many other things in the theatre's repertoire. Now Hamlet himself has
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On the Portuguese poet and philosopher Fernando Pessoa
Beauty is the name of something that does not exist, which I give to things in exchange for the pleasure they give me. The Portuguese poet and philosopher Fernando Pessoa
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Good Morning
If at all possible, refrain from coffee, or at least from a storm in a teacup
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