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Voltaire on how the absurdity of Christian dogma breeds atheists
False science breeds atheists; true science brings men to their knees before God. but The absurdity of Christian dogmas breeds atheists. Both the one and the other: Voltaire
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In the 1980s Margaret Thatcher appeared on a Saturday-morning music show, plainly trying to get in touch with youth culture
In the 1980s Margaret Thatcher appeared on a Saturday-morning music show, plainly trying to get in touch with youth culture. She listened to a performance by a contemporary band and said they had “a good beat”. True, nobody has heard of that band since
Books · People · Saint Petersburg
Cherubina de Gabriac’s 1928 poem about longing far from the Neva
Listen to the dream of night, do not miss the falling star… along my streets, an Invisible Shade, I shall walk behind you… Look (I pine so in the desert far from beloved places…): is the water in the Neva still blue? Has the cross not yet been taken from
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Maria Limanskaya of Khaldei's “Brandenburg Madonna” photo turns 100 in Saratov Region
Maria Filippovna Limanskaya, made famous worldwide by Yevgeny Khaldei's photograph "The Brandenburg Madonna", turns 100 this year. The image of Maria Limanskaya has become one of the most recognisable symbols of Victory. In the war Maria Limanskaya was a traffic controller and travelled all the roads
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Donna Tartt in an interview compares good books to an off-road vehicle on rough terrain
Donna Tartt, in a recent interview, likened reading and writing good books to an off-road vehicle driving over terrain so rough that it is unclear whether the machine will ever make it back. "It ought to be fun, I think," the writer remarked.
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Crucifix from the church of San Domenico in Arezzo, wood, tempera and gold
Crucifix from the church of San Domenico in Arezzo, wood, tempera and gold. The work of Giotto's teacher, known under the pseudonym of Cimabue, dated to roughly 1268-1271
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Parisian traveller Hugues Krafft photographed Egypt in March 1887
Photographs from a journey to Egypt, 13 to 27 March 1887. The photographs are by Hugues Krafft, a wealthy Parisian bourgeois of German origin who inherited an enormous fortune on his father's death, which allowed him to devote his life to the arts and to travel. He wandered
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I would never die for my beliefs, because I might be wrong
Bertrand Russell
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Napoleon's death in exile on 5 May 1821 and Chateaubriand's response
5 May 1821, 203 years ago, Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile. He himself used to say that “Death is nothing, but to live defeated and without glory is to die every day.” Many rejoiced, many mourned, and almost all agreed that one of the makers of history had departed. Chateaubriand
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I laugh at those peoples, sunk in abasement, who, egged on by demagogues, dare to speak of freedom without having the least notion of it, and who, with hearts full of all the vices of slaves, imagine that to become free…
I laugh at those peoples, sunk in abasement, who, egged on by demagogues, dare to speak of freedom without having the least notion of it, and who, with hearts full of all the vices of slaves, imagine that to become free it is enough to be rebels. Proud and holy
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