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Nikolai Yusupov, principal heir to the Yusupov fortune and to the princely title of his mother, Zinaida Yusupova, Count Sumarokov-Elston. Elder brother of Felix Yusupov. Killed in a duel in 1908, aged 25
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The woman and the velociraptor. In the photograph: Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925 - 2015), one of the world's most distinguished palaeontologists and a key figure of post-war science in Poland. The chief objects of Zofia's scientific work were the trilobites of Central Europe, the dinosaurs of
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The author of these words, Thomas Aquinas, died on this day 748 years ago. Who would have thought how swiftly time flies!
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One of the most valuable exhibits at the Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev Museum, the Boblovo estate, is a suitcase made by Mendeleev. The exhibit was donated to the museum by the scientist's granddaughter, Ekaterina Dmitriyevna Kamenskaya-Kuzmina. Yes, besides collecting art, Mendeleev was fond of making cases, trunks and
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Pope Francis visited the Russian Embassy in Rome to express personally his concern over events in Ukraine. The Pope usually receives ambassadors and heads of state in the Vatican, so his stepping outside its walls shows the degree of his alarm at the situation that has arisen. Vatican spokesman Matteo
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The memorial plaque on house no. 72, Chkalov Street, in the city of Rybinsk commemorates the sons of Khaim Shmuilovich Schenker, a clerk at the Rybinsk office of the Volga River Steamship Company, Joseph and Nicholas, who emigrated with their family to the USA in 1893, when they were 15
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Cardinal Bergoglio and Pope John Paul II. Jorge Mario Bergoglio became a cardinal on 21 February 2001; twelve years later he would be elected Pope.
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Pope Francis criticised clericalism, calling it a perversion of faith, because it is founded not on closeness but on distance. While the People of God need shepherds like Jesus, not church functionaries or professionals of holiness, but shepherds full of compassion and care, courageous men ready to draw near to