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Marilyn Monroe in Clothes That Do Not Reveal the Body
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Do you remember Natasha's lullaby from the film "Prophet", in which Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin plays the great Yura Borisov?
Do you remember Natasha's lullaby from the film "Prophet", in which Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin plays the great Yura Borisov? It turns out that this piercing song was both written and performed by Nadya Gritskevich, that very indie legend of the 2010s. Nadya and I met some
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In case anyone has forgotten, this is Justin Trudeau in his youth, back when blacking up with boot polish for a masquerade had not yet been declared an unpardonable incantation
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Dostoevsky on revolution in Russia, atheism and the destruction of churches
The International has ordained that the European revolution shall begin in Russia. And begin it will... For we have no reliable defence against it, either in the government or in society. The revolt will begin with atheism and the plundering of all wealth. They will start by deposing religion, demolishing
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Felix Yusupov, Count Sumarokov-Elston, at Different Periods of His Life
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Painting by Lavinia Fontana found in storage of a museum in northern France
In the storeroom of a small museum in northern France, a painting by the Renaissance artist Lavinia Fontana has been found. The picture had been lying about in storage for the past 150 years. Fontana is considered one of the first professional women artists in Europe, and the discovery of
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In the 1960s Tove Jansson illustrated the Finnish and Swedish editions of The Hobbit, and the result was some of the least canonical drawings ever made for Tolkien's universe
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Elegance is the right combination of distinction, naturalness and simplicity
Christian Dior
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We are forever passing through the thresholds of initiation
We are forever passing through the thresholds of initiation. Every accident, every incident, every joy and every suffering is an initiation. And reading a beautiful book, or beholding a great landscape, may also be an initiation The French writer Marguerite Yourcenar
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Pope Francis's First Public Appearance After Hospitalisation
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Tolstoy's love of horses, from Pirogovo to Delir in Yasnaya Polyana
Tolstoy was madly fond of horses. At the age of ten he left his first account of the impression made on him by an acquaintance with horses at the stud farm in Pirogovo. This childish rapture he later gave to Nikolenka Irtenyev in "Childhood": I was in a