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Paintings from Adrien Brody's debut exhibition in New York as proof that a man cannot be equally bad at two different things. And Brody the painter is even worse than Brody the actor
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Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, 1962
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A work by the cartoonist Charles Addams, creator of The Addams Family
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Ever heard the story of the leshy who took a fancy to a village girl and came courting her in the guise of a wealthy merchant, and her parents gave her to him as a wife? After a while the girl came back to return her cross to her father,
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Watching “What? Where? When?” I am astonished that not a single person in an entire hall of clever-clogs could identify the book lift from the Lenin Library! They are practically identical in nearly all libraries. Well, well: our respected citizens stray ever further from the temple of knowledge
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- I have just confiscated an interesting little item from Mr Potter, a scroll of black magic. - It looks more like a parchment that insults anyone who reads it. But it would be best to examine its possible hidden properties.
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Bonsoir. Thanks to this photograph of Audrey Hepburn we know that in the Paris of the 1960s, too, there was the ruinous practice of crown-topping trees, which is now applied everywhere in Moscow and within a couple of years destroys healthy, sturdy trees. But note that there, at least,
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Pope Leo XIV has started a Twitter account in Latin, and it is magnificent! A splendid step towards popularising the Latin language