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In the 1790s, campaigns arise in England against the currents blowing in from France, alarming for their backdrop of bloody reprisals and the overthrow of a monarchy
In the 1790s, campaigns arise in England against the currents blowing in from France, alarming for their backdrop of bloody reprisals and the overthrow of a monarchy. A propaganda broadsheet sets two allegories of Liberty side by side: Britannia, with the scales of justice, Magna Carta under the protection of
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Dolls, English Style: Notable Tories in the Guise of Gentlemen of Yesterday, 1970
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History of the Stalin Monument in Prague from the 1950s Competition to Demolition
In the 1950s it was decided to erect a monument to Stalin in Letná Park, on a viewing platform overlooking Prague, timed to mark the tenth anniversary of the city's liberation from the fascists by Soviet troops. But the sculptors were in no hurry to take part in
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Speaking of the history of destroyed monuments, one cannot fail to recall the colossal multi-figure composition in Prague, in which Stalin leads Czechoslovak and Soviet builders of a bright future, and which survived for only 7 years
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“The Beatles and the Rolling Stones and many others who took up the baton of madness from Presley were very popular, hundreds of thousands were invested to keep their reputation from fading”
“The Beatles and the Rolling Stones and many others who took up the baton of madness from Presley were very popular, hundreds of thousands were invested to keep their reputation from fading. And yet none of them lasted long.” An amusing note in Sovetskaya kultura by Tatyana Kvardakova. Tatyana Vladimirovna
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The Monarchess Arrives in Kyiv
The Monarchess has arrived in Kyiv. A note for all those whom feminine forms irritate: in fact they are an organic and perfectly fitting linguistic phenomenon with a long history. From the book "Life and Military Deeds of Generalissimo Prince Italiysky Count Suvorov-Rymniksky"
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Americans topple the statue of George III in Bowling Green park in Manhattan in 1776
Americans pulling the gilded equestrian statue of King George III from its marble pedestal after the reading of the Declaration of Independence on 6 July 1776 in Bowling Green Park, Manhattan. The lead statue was toppled at the second attempt, broke into pieces, and was melted down for bullets. The
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The Legend of Marilyn Monroe Helping Ella Fitzgerald at the Mocambo Club and Its Critics
There is a much-repeated recollection of Ella Fitzgerald's: when she was not being invited to sing in clubs because she was black, Marilyn Monroe offered the manager of the prestigious Mocambo club to come and sit at a table right by the stage, reserved for all the
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Titus Oates invented a Popish plot against Charles II and was convicted of perjury
Recalling Titus Oates, the English conspirator and scoundrel of the seventeenth century, one cannot help thinking of our own contemporaries, who have inscribed their loathsome deeds in the book of the scum of all ages. Oates is known for having invented a certain Popish Plot to murder King Charles II.
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