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François René de Chateaubriand, French writer
When a man believes in nothing, he is very close to believing in everything. François René de Chateaubriand
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Photographs of Igor Stravinsky as a Model of Men's Style
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Today the Italian actress Lea Massari turns 89; she is remembered for her unusual beauty and her work in the films of Louis Malle, Michelangelo Antonioni and Sergio Leone
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David of Thessalonica and the 13 days separating Greek and Russian church calendars
On 26 June the Greek Orthodox Church honours the memory of the hermit Saint David of Thessalonica. Of his ninety years, the venerable saint spent seventy in fasting, prayer and asceticism in a hut beneath an almond tree. Even in his lifetime he was recognised as a wonder-worker: he
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The Triumphal Entry of Alexander Nevsky into the City of Pskov after His Victory over the Germans
The Triumphal Entry of Alexander Nevsky into the City of Pskov after His Victory over the Germans. Grigory Ugryumov, late eighteenth century
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Satie, Debussy and Stravinsky at a dinner in Debussy's apartment in June 1910
A Party at Debussy's House. These photographs show three composers who did much to shape the face of music at the beginning of the twentieth century: Erik Satie, Claude Debussy and Igor Stravinsky. The first photograph was taken by Stravinsky, the second by Satie. Stravinsky sits in the
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Any language is an alphabet of symbols, the use of which presupposes a past shared by the interlocutors
Jorge Luis Borges
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Mary Allen Wilkes
Mary Allen Wilkes. A legend. This year the first person to use a personal computer at home turns 85
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President of Iceland Guðni Jóhannesson Spotted Strolling Casually at the Nordic Ethnology and Folklore Conference in Reykjavik
President of Iceland Guðni Jóhannesson has been spotted strolling casually at the Nordic Ethnology and Folklore Conference in Reykjavik. Guðni is a historian, a doctor of sciences and the author of 7 books. No throngs of bodyguards or vast retinue were detected in the vicinity.
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After his victory at the Battle of the River Cherekha in 1436, during the feudal war of the fifteenth century, Vasily Vasilyevich, Grand Duke of Vladimir and Moscow, ordered one eye to be put out of his cousin and rival for the Muscovite throne, Prince Va
After his victory at the Battle of the River Cherekha in 1436, during the feudal war of the fifteenth century, Vasily Vasilyevich, Grand Duke of Vladimir and Moscow, ordered one eye to be put out of his cousin and rival for the Muscovite throne, Prince Vasily Yuryevich, who thereafter received
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Thatcher's departure from Parliament in 1992 and her later years
Incidentally, when Thatcher won the election in 1987 for the third time, some political scientists predicted that she would remain in power until 2000, when she would have turned 75. But she chose to leave Parliament in 1992, at the age of 66, after which she continued her political activity,
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