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The most interesting historical angle is a view of the universe in which Bulgakov's (let us not forget this, for all the charm of Leonid Gaidai) inventor-engineer Timofeev, and Nikolai Ivanovich rather than Alexander…

The most interesting historical angle is a view of the universe in which Bulgakov's (let us not forget this, for all the charm of Leonid Gaidai) inventor-engineer Timofeev, and Nikolai Ivanovich rather than Alexander Sergeyevich, upon inventing the time machine, meets the Briton Doctor Who. Naturally, it

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As far as I can tell, nobody remembers palo santo apart from this unknown artist of the school of Georges de La Tour, yet for a while every lifestyle publication was waving it about

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Jeremy Irons Lives in a Restored 15th-Century Irish Castle

Jeremy Irons lives in a restored 15th-century Irish castle. In 1998 the actor bought the ruined Kilcoe Castle in County Cork; its restoration took six years and about 2 million dollars. Irons's castle was built in 1458, but from 1603 onwards it lay in a state of

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Keanu Reeves makes his Broadway debut in Waiting for Godot

On 28 September, Jamie Lloyd's production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot will open at the Hudson Theatre on Broadway. Although Reeves first appeared on the stage as long ago as 1985, playing Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, Waiting for Godot will be his first Broadway

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"Vertumnus" by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, late sixteenth century

"Avion skandia" by Bengt Lindström, 1985

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Christie's Closes Its Digital Art and NFT Department

Christie's is closing its digital art and NFT department. One rather suspects they were the only ones left who remembered what it was. The decision, well, who would have thought? is connected both with the global slump in interest in NFTs and with broader shifts in the art

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Keanu Reeves in Bram Stoker's Dracula and on the poster for the film

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In Krasnoyarsk, an airport and the state opera and ballet theatre are named after Dmitri Hvorostovsky

In Krasnoyarsk, an airport and the state opera and ballet theatre are named after Dmitri Hvorostovsky. At this theatre Dmitri Hvorostovsky was a soloist from 1985 to 1990. Krasnoyarsk is Hvorostovsky's native city: here he studied at a music school and in the music department of a teacher

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Everyone who witnessed the great Furby craze knows they were demonic, even those who do not ordinarily believe in demons

It would seem that every generation is palmed off with its own demonic doll. True, the standard Furby of the 2000s was half the size, and it was supposed that one could teach them words, but as far as I remember, that never worked. But whom am I telling: Labubu

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It Turns Out Disney Cut the Scene Where Snow White Prays to God from the Remake

Well, well, well

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The "Tolstoy's Word" project and Yandex Maps join forces for the classic's birthday

The "Tolstoy's Word" project and Yandex Maps have joined forces for the classic's birthday. As a result, Maps now has a Tolstoy profile, with genuine quotations from his diaries and letters about places in Moscow. It looks as though the writer were sharing his

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