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Workers laying cobblestones on a Paris street in 1936, a photograph by Fred Stein
Paving in Paris, 1936. Fred Stein. Have you noticed that in Moscow the surface is laid by an altogether different technology?
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A High School Diploma in Oregon Can Now Be Had Even if You Cannot Read, Write or Count
A high school diploma in Oregon can now be had even if you cannot read, write or count. The state's competent authority has ruled that students no longer need to demonstrate writing skills or a knowledge of mathematics in order to proceed to higher education. Officials of the
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What My Ordinary Trip to the Dry Cleaner's Looks Like
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Imaginary Lego sets are always better than real ones
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The Palantíri Have Not Yet Been Delivered
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Berlusconi's collection of thousands of cheap paintings has become a burden to his heirs
The Guardian carries an amusing little item on how Silvio Berlusconi's heirs were astonished to learn that a collection of some 25,000 paintings, on which he may have spent around 20 million euros, consists largely of worthless daubs. The former Prime Minister of Italy devoted several years
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Homemade car by Soviet engineer Oleg Kucherenko on show at the Museum of Moscow
This Car Looks as if It Is Plotting Something. A splendid home-built automobile with the touching name "Trud" ("Labour"), the work of the Soviet engineer Oleg Kucherenko, is on show at the exhibition "Garage Wanted" at the Museum of Moscow, organised jointly with
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Exhibition of the art group “Rossiya” opens at the Nakovalnya gallery
An exhibition by the art group “Rossiya” has opened at the Nakovalnya Gallery. They are among my very favourite artists, Ivan and Yegor Dmitriev especially. The show is a small one, and thoroughly agreeable
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Perhaps not the most suitable portrait for comparing Louis XIV to Apollo
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Philosopher Nicolás Gómez Dávila of Colombia photographed by bookshelves
The bourgeoisie is any group of people dissatisfied with what they have and satisfied with what they are. The Colombian philosopher Nicolás Gómez Dávila
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