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When Marie Antoinette was brought before the Revolutionary Tribunal on the first day of her two-day trial, 14 October 1793, the jurors who had received their summonses were informed that "the vengeance of the people is in your hands", which amounts to indicating, in this fashion, the
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In the Trans-Volga forests on the river Kerzhenets, not far from Semyonov in the Nizhny Novgorod region, stands a cross over the grave of Hieromonk Sophonty, one of the most revered fathers of the Old Believers. Tradition names Sophonty as one of seven Solovetsky monks who fled the monastery
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A mural in Tomsk showing Saint Theodore of Tomsk, also known as Elder Fyodor Kuzmich, and Emperor Alexander I, whom many consider to be one and the same man. I am inclined to think so too. The man who called himself Fyodor Kuzmich appeared in 1836 in Perm Governorate, was
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Thirty millilitres of saffron gin, fifteen millilitres of fresh lemon juice, fifteen millilitres of honey and rosemary syrup, dry champagne and a star anise for garnish. The White Mouse cocktail is named after the legendary Nancy Wake, the most decorated servicewoman of the Second World War. The Gestapo nicknamed her
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Our time needs men and women who have the courage to do good, even when it involves sacrifice. Draw near to those who are lonely, support the weary and seek out those who have lost their way. Have the courage to forgive, to begin anew and to enter into dialogue.
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The Orientalist Grigory Alexandrovich Kozakov, surrounded by his relatives, his daughter-in-law Countess Anna Nikolayevna Tolstaya, the children and their tutor, at a picnic near the village of Zhikharevka in 1903
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Grow strong, cosmic youth! A poster for Cosmonautics Day, created by the artist Konstantin Konstantinovich Ivanov in 1977. The work was issued by the Moscow publishing house “Plakat” for 12 April. Konstantin Ivanov was a Soviet graphic artist and poster designer, Honoured Artist of the RSFSR. The theme of space
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I live among people who see me and do not understand me, or with the Invisible One whom I cannot comprehend. The darkness of my sins veils him, even when the deadly lead had grown numb in my body; a gleam of his gaze flashed before me when the blade
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From a guidebook to Syria. Photographs by Félix Bonfils (1831-1885)
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Photographs by the Catalan photographer Xavier Miserachs i Ribalta (1937-1998)
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For the first time since the establishment of the Nobel Prize you have awarded it to an exile. For who am I? An exile enjoying the hospitality of France, to which I, too, shall for ever remain grateful. Gentlemen of the Academy, allow me, leaving aside my own person and
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Saint John of God carrying a sick man. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. 1672. Seville, the church of San Jorge at the Hospital de la Caridad John of God is a real historical figure of the sixteenth century: in his youth he was a soldier, and in maturity he went through a