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I have told this story before, but in view of the alternative news I shall repeat myself

In 1913 a number of English-language newspapers carried an article reporting that several chambers of a temple-like character had been discovered inside the Great Sphinx. The text claimed that a fairly large room existed both inside the head and inside the body, and that in one of these

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In a recent Kommersant piece on the book market, the labelling of books and the application of the law banning the "propaganda of drugs", State Duma deputy Sergey Shargunov confesses:

Every time I write a new page or a new chapter, I think: "Is this going to come back at me?" And just imagine how it is for ordinary people.

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It is hard to single out any aspect of this Louvre director's tenure that has not come in for devastating criticism

It is hard to single out any aspect of this Louvre director's tenure that has not come in for devastating criticism. Her departure can therefore rightly be called an act of responsibility, whoever may have initiated it Farewell, de Carmont - read my text on the crisis at the

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What should have happened four months ago, after the robbery of the Louvre, has now come to pass: its director Laurence des Cars has resigned, and the President of France has accepted her resignation

What should have happened four months ago, after the robbery of the Louvre, has now come to pass: its director Laurence des Cars has resigned, and the President of France has accepted her resignation. And he promptly sent her off to work on cooperation between major museums as part of

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February reminds us that the coldest time of year is always followed by renewal, and we recall the key publications of the last winter month. A of the most interesting posts of the past 28 days:

📌 A living sea. Kazakhstan has solved the environmental problem of the North Aral 📌 “Ministerial furniture” at a royal price in Versailles 📌 The French Senate has approved the restitution of cultural property, while the security services approve the liquidation of African political leaders 📌 The Russians have won! What the American newspapers

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Good Lord, Gucci creative director Demna Gvasalia has issued a manifesto on his vision of the brand

Good Lord, Gucci creative director Demna Gvasalia has issued a manifesto on his vision of the brand. These manifestos are always one and the same, but this time reading it leaves a particularly odd sensation. A little water and pathos to begin with: "A house that has lived many

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The Guardian once ran a rather strange story about how, in a telephone conversation with French President Jacques Chirac in 2003, George W. Bush appealed to their shared Christian faith as grounds for invading Iraq

The Guardian once ran a rather strange story about how, in a telephone conversation with French President Jacques Chirac in 2003, George W. Bush appealed to their shared Christian faith as grounds for invading Iraq. Bush is supposed to have said to Chirac something along these lines: “Gog and Magog

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On 29 July 1955 American scientists announced their intention to launch the first artificial satellite of the Earth within the next two years

On 2 August, at the Sixth Congress of the International Astronautical Federation in Copenhagen, Academician Sedov promised that the USSR would launch an Earth satellite before the United States. At the same time, he did not rule out cooperation between the powers The Russians have won! Newspapers with such headlines

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Hundreds of Jews and Jewesses were killed or wounded

The first mentions of Chernobyl in the Western press are connected with pogroms: March 1919, hundreds of Jews killed in Ukraine, in Berdichev, Zhitomir, Chernobyl, Ovruch, Belaya Tserkov, Letichev, Elisavetgrad, Vasilkov and other places.

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During the civil wars in Venezuela in the late nineteenth century, European merchants in the country suffered heavy losses, chiefly German, French, Spanish and Belgian capital

During the civil wars in Venezuela in the late nineteenth century, European merchants in the country suffered heavy losses, chiefly German, French, Spanish and Belgian capital. The ambassadors of these countries demanded compensation. The dictator of the day, Cipriano Castro, refused to pay reparations or service the foreign debts. The

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ARTnews has compiled a list of the most talked-about archaeological discoveries of 2025:

Beneath the Palace of Westminster, flint tools of the Mesolithic and Neolithic eras, about 6,000 years old, have been found, together with artefacts dating from the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages In Shaanxi Province in China, a network of 573 ancient stone fortifications has been found, the earliest

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The channel has already published a piece on how, in recent years, European libraries have suffered badly from thefts of rare editions of Russian classics: in the Baltic states, Berlin, Warsaw, The Hague, Geneva, Lyon, Munich, Paris, Prague and Helsinki,

The channel has already published a piece on how, in recent years, European libraries have suffered badly from thefts of rare editions of Russian classics: in the Baltic states, Berlin, Warsaw, The Hague, Geneva, Lyon, Munich, Paris, Prague and Helsinki, book thieves substituted copies for the originals. The most popular