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There are flat-museums, open-air museums, museums that are natural sites, tiny little museums and, for instance, museums on wheels. One such train has set off from Russia for Belarus. It is planned to travel around the country from 11 to 28 June, and the number of potential visitors
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In the 1940s, Finnish botanists began recording plants in Finland that had never grown in those habitats, and, curiously enough, they were found at the sites where units of a foreign army had been stationed. For such plants, introduced into an ecosystem as a result of military action, a term
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The cabinet had earlier directed 3.5 billion to projects in the field of culture and the arts, but First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Kiriyenko (who also chairs the committee for the conduct of competitions for presidential grants) has clarified that, for an objective and complete picture, the
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Rome was the first Axis capital to be liberated by the Allies. On 4 June 1944 American troops entered the city, although the northern regions of Italy remained under Fascist control almost until the end of the war
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The circumstances of his death remain somewhat unclear: there are reports that the British troopers, in effect assigned to the prince as a guard, were nearby but did not open fire on the Zulus, who were armed with spears and had no armour of any kind. Moreover, the sortie in
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After the Gulag he wrote the novel "The Monkey Comes for Its Skull" (1959), the collection of novellas "The Dark Lady. Three Novellas about Shakespeare" (1969), his finest poems, and, finally, the largely autobiographical novels "The Keeper of Antiquities" (1964) and its sequel, "
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“I live in a flat whose doors are guarded by the police round the clock. Nobody is admitted to see me except members of my family. The price my old friend from Gorky pays for knowing us is an interrogation by the KGB after every visit. There is no telephone
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Once again I find entries on vaccination in nineteenth-century diaries. Our old acquaintance Willem de Clercq, poet, thinker and memoirist from the Netherlands, was in May 1827 extremely troubled by the subject of the smallpox vaccine. Today we know that the discovery of this vaccine changed the world and
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Nancy Reagan shields her husband's head as he, forgetting his recent head surgery, takes off his hat to wave to the crowd. 1989
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Perhaps not the most intriguing piece of news, but still, to some extent, topical. In the diary of the Dutch poet Willem de Clercq (not to be confused with his exact namesake, the President of South Africa in the 1990s), there is an entry about a sorrowful letter from Beler,
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