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A New Pope Is Elected
They were quick about it
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And which theological school do you incline towards?
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Cardinals in the Sistine Chapel compared with an Easter service in an old Russian church
An impressive spectacle of cardinals in the Sistine Chapel. Yet, if we speak of the aesthetic side of the matter, the Easter service in any ancient Russian church looks considerably more majestic
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The conclave has begun, and the author hopes its sessions will be long
A reminder that the conclave has begun. I do hope they will sit there a good while longer and give the matter proper thought
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Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII in Charles Jarrott's film with Geneviève Bujold
Anyone dreaming of a prince would do well to watch the 1969 film "Anne of the Thousand Days", which won the Oscar for Best Costume Design. True, the film contains a number of questionable historical allusions, such as the presence of Mary Tudor at her mother's
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In 1620, in Marburg, two spiritual men who styled themselves prophets preached repentance and foretold that there would be one faith, that Turks and Jews would be converted to the Christian religion, but only after a terrible war, famine and plague, and t
Any day now, I suppose
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John Keats described the pleasure of eating a nectarine on 22 September 1819
On 22 September 1819 the English Romantic poet John Keats wrote in his journal: "Talking of pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my mouth a nectarine — good god how fine! It went down soft, pulpy, slushy, oozy — all its delicious
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Byron in “Don Juan” portrays 62-year-old Catherine II in the full bloom of maturity
"Of course, her pleasant face bore traces of corpulence," – I recommend all ageists to read Byron's description of Catherine II, the imperial mistress of Don Juan. A not especially flattering beginning, one would think. But in fact Byron is kind and benevolent towards the 62-year-
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Weather, Thank You for the Scenery
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The Plan of My Flat
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Tariffs and moving film production to the US as the industry falls 40% in two years
Katya, I do wonder how exactly he intends to make California great again. After all, even the American studios have in recent years been striving to move production beyond the borders of the United States because of the exorbitant cost. It turns out that even Britain is cheaper than California,
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