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The Snow Queen's Front Entrance, Apparently
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The United States Remains a Remarkable Country, Where the Showing of Identity Documents at Polling Stations Is a Matter of Debate
The United States remains a remarkable country, where the showing of identity documents at polling stations is a matter of debate. Remarkable indeed.
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Tarantino on the Streets of Tel Avivsk
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Digest of December posts on comet 3I/ATLAS, the Chagall exhibition and the Decembrists
Let us recall the good things! Returning to the interesting December publications on the channel 📌 On the unification of the Christian denominations 📌 Comet 3I/ATLAS: the finest interstellar light show in history 📌 Why we buy books 📌 Chronicles of the most famous flood in Moscow 📌 “Homo homini amicus, collega et frater
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Calculating possible payments to Greenlanders in a hypothetical US purchase of Greenland
On the one hand, it is remarkable to see the comic cliché of Americans believing they can buy anything on earth made flesh in the hypothetical purchase of Greenland. On the other, however sociopathic it may look, who can seriously suppose that people would be ready to sell their homeland
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The idea of buying Greenland and US territorial acquisitions from 1803 to 1867
Why does the plot of acquiring Greenland not look all that fantastical? One need only recall the history of the United States and its bargain purchases. In 1803 Louisiana was bought from France for roughly 15 million dollars. As a result, its territories went, wholly or in part, to form:
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Noses in their iPhones
Photograph by Vladimir Baranovsky, 1970s, Leningrad
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Alas, "The Art of Trolling" Turned Out to Be a Book About Fishing from a Moving Boat
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The Nativity in Ilya Repin's 1890 painting from the Tretyakov Gallery collection
Merry Christmas! Heavenly grace, happiness and the light of the Star of Bethlehem to you all! Always strive towards the perfection of the Lord, and remember that there is no Saviour but Christ! Ilya Repin, The Nativity of Christ, 1890. State Tretyakov Gallery
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Karl Marx and the subject of artificial intelligence
The new era differs from the old one chiefly in that the whip begins to imagine it is a genius. Karl Marx on artificial intelligence
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Rhetorical Questions Require No Answer
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Last night in Paris, at a rally on the Place de la République condemning the seizure of the Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, an American flag was burned
Last night in Paris, at a rally on the Place de la République condemning the seizure of the Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, an American flag was burned. Were it not for the Monument to the Republic by the Morice brothers in the background, one might think the party was taking