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Today at 18:30 the website of the Russian Geographical Society will host a lecture marking the 110th anniversary of the legendary explorer of the World Ocean, Jacques-Yves Cousteau. The lecture can also be watched on YouTube and VK.
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"The knowledge needed to solve this problem lies in the regularities governing the sum of squares of certain two-digit numbers, named after a celebrated Russian educator" 10²+11²+12²= 365 13²+14²= 365 Those whom the subject has intrigued will find an informative note about this painting,
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Mental Arithmetic at Rachinsky's Village School, Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky, 1895. The problem on the blackboard, (10²+11²+12²+13²+14²)/365, World of engineering proposes to solve in one's head. I, to be honest, did not manage it at the first attempt: I tried to break
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Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has left the Vatican with a small retinue, his secretary and several medical staff to visit his elder brother Georg, aged 96, in Germany, where the latter's health has begun to decline. Benedict commented briefly on this rare absence from his permanent Vatican residence,
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Mrs Johanna O'Connor, a peasant woman from a mountain hamlet in Ireland, at the age of 110: "I still smoke my pipe and do not think a person ought to be without a drop of punch, wine or stout... My secret of longevity? There is no secret,
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There is a much-repeated recollection of Ella Fitzgerald's: when she was not being invited to sing in clubs because she was black, Marilyn Monroe offered the manager of the prestigious Mocambo club to come and sit at a table right by the stage, reserved for all the
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Well, well: Nikita Mikhalkov has moved to the Spas television channel. He tells us how the Emperor Constantine hamstrung his own horses(!), and how the Emperor Diocletian grew cabbages. For which, much thanks
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In May 1824 one of the greatest crimes in the history of English literature was committed in London. Barely a month after Byron's death, his memoirs were destroyed. And this was done in the presence of the poet's close friends and his executor. Memoirs are usually
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..Laughter, strictly speaking, is what saved me. Having passed through every stage of hatred and despair, I reached that height from which the ridiculous is visible as on the palm of one's hand. Having burst out laughing, I was cured, like that anecdotal fellow whose "abscess burst
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Oksana Kiyanskaya, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities, specialist on the Decembrists and academic consultant to the film "The Union of Salvation", has confirmed that the Chevalier Guard friends will return to the ranks. The team is working on the series
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Recalling Titus Oates, the English conspirator and scoundrel of the seventeenth century, one cannot help thinking of our own contemporaries, who have inscribed their loathsome deeds in the book of the scum of all ages. Oates is known for having invented a certain Popish Plot to murder King Charles II.