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Feodor Chaliapin visiting Ilya Repin in February 1914. Vyborg Governorate, the village of Kuokkala. Chaliapin stands on the runners of a Finnish kicksled, a conveyance extremely popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Sweden, Finland, Norway and the northern provinces of Russia. The design is as follows:
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I am the sum of everything that has ever happened to me, every mistake I have made and every tear I have shed, though I have tried to keep them few, and I have never repeated a mistake. After a catastrophe I take a deep breath, put on a smile
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An installation by the British artist and sculptor Alex Chinneck in the town of Margate, in the county of Kent, Great Britain. The project is a visual illusion in which the façade of a brick house appears to be "sliding" downwards and partly detaching itself from the building
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Every human being, every member of the human family, bears responsibility for the peace of the whole world. No one has the right to cast off the lofty and beautiful duty of creating good. No one has the right to burn Joan of Arc. Who has been given the right
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On the desk lies a note with a quotation from Romain Rolland: All the joy of life lies in creation; to create is to kill death
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Most likely with the frame for a future figure of a tiger: the reserve is, after all, one of the world's principal centres for the study and protection of the Amur tiger Primorsky Krai, 1960s
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25 January. Fell in love, or imagined that I had, was at a party and lost my head. Bought a horse that I have no need of whatsoever. Rules. Never offer any price for a thing one does not need. On entering a ball, at once ask someone to dance
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Maurice Goudeket entered the life of the French writer Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette in the early 1930s, when she was already a national celebrity. They met through mutual acquaintances from literary circles. At first their association was rather a working one: Goudeket helped her with manuscripts, proofreading and correspondence with publishers,
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A sword swallower. Maryland, USA, 1970 Photograph by Diane Arbus
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The station was headed by the geophysicist Ivan Papanin; his team consisted of the meteorologist and geophysicist Yevgeny Fedorov, the radio operator Ernst Krenkel and the hydrobiologist Pyotr Shirshov. The organisation of the whole enterprise was directed by Otto Schmidt, head of the Soviet Arctic Expedition. The members of the