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Vladimir Zhirinovsky with the class of 1964. The elderly lady in the photograph is Zhirinovsky's favourite teacher, Serafima Filatovna Nikonova. Vladimir Volfovich spoke of her repeatedly in his interviews, even quite late ones, when he was already advanced in years, saying that he remembered her as a highly
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Zhirinovsky's School. The legendary School No. 25 in Alma-Ata, from which Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky graduated. In those years it was Secondary School No. 25 named after Dzerzhinsky, with a language bias (once the school named after Comrade Yezhov, directly opposite the KGB building). One of the city&
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Pope Francis was recently photographed in a Patek Philippe Tiffany Blue, just like Leonardo DiCaprio's. The watch, issued to mark 170 years of collaboration between Tiffany and Patek Philippe, was, so the legend went, a gift to the Pontiff from the watch house; in the end it turned
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On 2 April 2005 Pope John Paul II died. His pontificate was one of the longest in history. In 2014 John Paul II was canonised
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In 1917, the wife of the tenth President of France, Henriette Poincaré, was attacked in the garden of the Élysée Palace by an orangutan that tried to abduct her. The animal, according to different versions, escaped either from the Théâtre du Rond-Point or from the house of a diplomat
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Today marks 20 years since the death of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. I remember the day she died as if it were yesterday, and I grieved very deeply. She truly held a quite special place in the hearts of many. The pain was comparable only to the loss of
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The only slap truly worth noticing has nothing to do with the mediocrities of the American pop industry. On 7 November 1968 the German journalist Beate Klarsfeld, known as a Nazi hunter, mounted the rostrum at a congress of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany and boxed the ears of
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Happiness is the only thing that doubles when you share it. The Alsatian theologian Albert Schweitzer