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World map with south at the top, published by the Brazilian government
A map of the world according to the government of Brazil. Indeed, why not?
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Might the journalists of REN TV put their questions about extraterrestrial cities in South America and Tsiolkovsky's acquaintance with the Martians not to me, but to the author of this opus
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A Russian poem of the early seventeenth century, that is, of the close of the Time of Troubles, describing the sinful love of a sister for her brother
What is more, the sister has no fear of public censure and is ready to pursue her brother's love in spite of everyone around her. The displeasure of people at such conduct she calls envy. Of all places, here is where I never expected to find a fiery
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Listen, this many days off every month is frankly not serious
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Leo XIV explains choice of name by Rerum Novarum and the rise of artificial intelligence
Unlike the start of Francis's pontificate in 2013, when the newly elected pope's first meeting with the cardinals was broadcast live, Leo XIV chose to hold his behind closed doors. The Vatican has published part of the Pope's address, in which, as a supplement
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So the Vatican may escape higher tariffs, now that it has a Pope made in the USA?
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Inside Ourselves We Are All the Same Age
Gertrude Stein
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The bookshelf after you have bought another two thousand books without yet finishing The Wizard of the Emerald City
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Pope Francis at the House of Saint Martha and the possible reversal of his innovations under Leo XIV
Italian and Spanish media confirm that Pope Leo XIV has decided to restore the papal residence in the Apostolic Palace. I remind you that Pope Francis lived and died in the Domus Sanctae Marthae (Casa Santa Marta), an annexe to St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, intended for
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Many Russian media have misrendered the surname Prevost, reading it as French, no doubt out of an idea of the pontiff's French background, but since the Pope is, after all, an American, and there is nothing French about him…
"Prévost" would be correct had he come from a French-speaking colony. In his own country he was Prevost, and this seemingly suited him well enough. At any rate, one will be able to put the question to him in person and find out whether he, in honouring
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Happy Victory Day!
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Cardinal Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, and the likely continuation of Francis's course
Of course, Trump will present the election of an American Pope as his own victory. But Cardinal Robert Prevost, who became Pope under the name of Leo XIV, is not the American pontiff the White House would have dreamed of. Given that his elevation owes much to the favour of