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The need for certainty has always been stronger than the need for truth
The French anthropologist Gustave Le Bon
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Federico Fellini and Marcello Mastroianni during the filming of "8½", 1963
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Distrust of Prince Harry after his public accounts of the family and Windsor
Prince Harry says in a new interview that his father will not speak to him "because of this security nonsense" Harry seems to have begun to forget that he is himself the very security risk on account of which nobody wishes to speak to him. If only because
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Ivan Andreyev's 1939 bust of Zhambyl Zhabayev at an exhibition in the New Tretyakov Gallery
Beloved Jambul. Bust of the Kazakh akyn Zhambyl Zhabayev, red sandstone, by the sculptor Ivan Andreyev, 1939. From the exhibition "The Road to the East. Russian Artists in Central Asia" at the New Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val. Andreyev was a pupil of Iosif Chaikov and Alexander Matveyev,
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Nominations of Boris Pasternak for the Nobel Prize from 1946 to 1958
It Turns Out Pasternak Was Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature Six Times. The first occasion was in 1946, when Boris Pasternak's candidacy was proposed by the English Slavist and translator of Silver Age poetry Cecil Maurice Bowra. He nominated Pasternak again in 1949. In 1948 and
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Saint Gabriel (Urgebadze) of Georgia burns a twelve-metre portrait of the godless Lenin during the May Day demonstration in Tbilisi in 1965
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Louis Malle’s Film “Volchonok”, Based on Georges Darien’s Novel, and Julien Guiomar’s Talent
Mont-Saint-Michel, Julien Guiomar and Jean-Paul Belmondo in Philippe de Broca's film "L'Incorrigible", 1975. If you fancy watching something human, beautiful and heartfelt over this long weekend, it comes recommended. And, while you are at it, there is another film with this
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Two versions of the death of Pope John XII, regarded as the most immoral pope
Pope John XII, who occupied the throne from 955 to 964, is said by some sources to have died after being caught in bed with another man's wife, whereupon the jealous husband beat him quite literally to death. This is one version of a most respectable end, but
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Royal Greeting, Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Life has more imagination than we carry in our heads
François Truffaut
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Funeral of Pope Francis in the Vatican on 26 April and burial at Santa Maria Maggiore
How the funeral of Pope Francis went today, 26 April 2025. Pope Francis died on the morning of 21 April in the Vatican of a stroke and heart failure. In the evening the rite of certifying death and placing the body in the coffin was performed. On 22 April official
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