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A Striking Statement by the Photographer Eric Pickersgill: the Series Removed. People have fused with their devices swiftly and irreversibly. At first, personal gadgets were very convenient helpers: they solved everyday tasks, made it easier to keep in touch with loved ones, to store and pass on information, to take
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News from the alchemists. Scientists have succeeded in turning lead into gold. The breakthrough was made possible by experiments at the Large Hadron Collider. For the moment, the gold nuclei thus formed exist for only a fraction of a second before decaying at once. Let us call it poetic that
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On the eve of the 78th Cannes Film Festival, Brigitte Bardot, who made her debut there in 1953, 72 years ago, gave an interview to French television. Brigitte rarely meets journalists and invariably keeps her own distinctive outlook, which is why she is always worth listening to. On French TV
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Robert Francis Prevost, now Leo XIV, is the first Pope of mixed race. His paternal ancestors were French and Italian; on his mother's side they were French, Spanish, Louisiana Creole, Afro-Haitian and African
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For Such an Occasion, It's Permitted. Benedict XVI (1927-2022) with a little mug of beer
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Of course, Trump will present the election of an American Pope as his own victory. But Cardinal Robert Prevost, who became Pope under the name of Leo XIV, is not the American pontiff the White House would have dreamed of. Given that his elevation owes much to the favour of
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Words from the address of the new Pope, Leo XIV:. Let us keep in our ears the faint voice of Pope Francis, who blessed Rome. The Pope who blessed Rome gave his blessing to the whole world that Easter morning. Allow me to continue that blessing. God loves us. God
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He became a cardinal in 2023. Born in the United States in 1955, he belongs to the Order of Saint Augustine
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Bourgeois civilisation has borne all its luxuriant fruits. America has taken first place among the free and educated countries in the level of development of the productive forces of collective human labour, in the use of machinery and of all the wonders of modern technology. At the same time, America
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*thanks Leo Tolstoy for his flattering review
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On 22 September 1819 the English Romantic poet John Keats wrote in his journal: "Talking of pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my mouth a nectarine — good god how fine! It went down soft, pulpy, slushy, oozy — all its delicious