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Translator Mikhail Rudicky on Kafka's prose and its likeness to Pushkin's
Kafka is a prose writer of genius. His narrative voice is clear and pure, full-toned, and, strange as it may seem, reminiscent of Pushkin's prose! Only Pushkin was drawn towards harmony, whereas Kafka was drawn away from it. "The Castle", for instance, reminds me of
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Study of the Wadlow family portrait, a possible lifetime image of Shakespeare
Stephen Wadlow, a 58-year-old window cleaner from Aylesbury (Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom), has spent more than ten years trying to prove that he owns the only portrait of Shakespeare painted in his lifetime. Stephen's father, Peter Wadlow, an antiques dealer, bought the portrait at the Great Tew
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When Peggy Guggenheim was asked how many husbands she had had, she replied: “My own, or other women’s?”
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The First Miss America: the American Model Margaret Gorman
The first Miss America was the American model Margaret Gorman. She was born on 18 August 1905. In 1921 she was crowned "Miss District of Columbia". The pageant, later known as "Miss America", was originally called the "Inter-City Beauty" contest.
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The Museum of Russian Impressionism is showing an exhibition devoted to one of the first glossy magazines of pre-revolutionary Russia, "Capital and Country Estate", which first appeared in 1913
The Museum of Russian Impressionism is showing an exhibition devoted to one of the first glossy magazines of pre-revolutionary Russia, "Capital and Country Estate" (Stolitsa i usadba), which first appeared in 1913. The display brings together paintings from 44 museums and 14 private collections that either appeared
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Tolkien used Tengwar, the script he devised for the legendarium of The Lord of the Rings, for entries in his weekly desk calendar
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The Letters of Édouard Manet, 1879–1880, Embellished by the Artist
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Mikhail Lomonosov on the merits of the Russian language among European languages
Charles the Fifth, Emperor of Rome, used to say that one should speak Spanish with God, French with friends, German with the enemy, and Italian with the fair sex. But had he been skilled in the Russian tongue, he would surely have added that one may fittingly speak it with
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Alexandre Dumas's journey through Russia and the Caucasus in 1858 and 1859
Alexandre Dumas in a Circassian coat during his three-month stay in the Caucasus. Dumas père travelled through Russia in 1858 to 1859, having come at the invitation of the patron of the arts Count Kushelev-Bezborodko, who is called the prototype of the Count of Monte Cristo, and, for
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Maria Branyas Morera, the world's oldest person, has died at the age of 117
Yesterday the Spanish supercentenarian María Branyas Morera passed away. Since 2023 María Branyas had been the oldest living person on Earth whose date of birth is documented. At the time of her death she was 117 years and 169 days old. Señora Morera was born in San Francisco, California, on
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Stalin's mother Ekaterina Geladze wanted to see her son become a priest
When Stalin visited his aged mother shortly before her death in October 1935, according to her doctor's recollections, they spoke briefly and Stalin tried to explain what it was that he did. "Mother, do you remember our Tsar? I am something like a tsar now," said