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The French intellectual of the late nineteenth century Henri Vaugeois, known as one of the founders of the monarchist organisation Action Française, was an advocate, as he put it himself, of an “anti-Semitic, anti-Masonic, anti-parliamentary and anti-demo

The French intellectual of the late nineteenth century Henri Vaugeois, known as one of the founders of the monarchist organisation Action Française, was an advocate, as he put it himself, of an “anti-Semitic, anti-Masonic, anti-parliamentary and anti-democratic” nationalism. In short, the full set of an obscurantist

By Alexandr Radayev

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By the favouring mercy of God, We, Alexander the Second, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, of Moscow, Kiev, Vladimir, Novgorod; Tsar of Kazan, Tsar of Astrakhan, Tsar of Poland, Tsar of Siberia, Tsar of the Tauric Chersonese…

By the favouring mercy of God, We, Alexander the Second, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, of Moscow, Kiev, Vladimir, Novgorod; Tsar of Kazan, Tsar of Astrakhan, Tsar of Poland, Tsar of Siberia, Tsar of the Tauric Chersonese, Tsar of Georgia; Sovereign of Pskov and Grand Duke of Smolensk,

By Alexandr Radayev

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The celebrated English philosopher, thinker, sociologist, jurist and plain eccentric Jeremy Bentham bequeathed his body to be mummified

The celebrated English philosopher, thinker, sociologist, jurist and plain eccentric Jeremy Bentham bequeathed his body to be mummified. In the first place, he had been fascinated by mummification since his youth; in the second, he was an atheist; besides which, he possessed a fine sense of humour and was convinced

By Alexandr Radayev