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Waldner's Aero-Train: The Soviet Train of the Future That Never Went Anywhere

Sevastyan Waldner received a musical education and played the violin, but he entered history as the inventor of a monorail train that was half a century ahead of its time. In 1931 he began work on the aero-train: two streamlined gondolas on a triangular truss, 300 passengers, a projected

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Trump Unveils Renderings of the Trump-Kennedy Center, and It Looks Most of All Like the Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington itself, I remind you, was renamed, with the surname Trump appended, in late 2025 by decision of the centre's board of trustees, of which Trump is chairman

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All of Us, Spending the Whole Day in Front of Screens

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EU commissioners for culture and democracy speak out against Russia's participation in the Venice Biennale: in their view, it runs counter to the EU's anti-Russian sanctions regime

Russia plans to present at the Venice Biennale a project entitled "The Tree Is Rooted in Heaven", to be staged in its national pavilion. Blackmailing the Biennale, the European Commission has threatened to strip it of a €2 million grant should Russia nonetheless go ahead with its project.

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Exactly six years ago the WHO officially declared COVID-19 a global pandemic

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The Bank of England will use images of wildlife on its new banknotes, fearing division among the public

The statement reads: “The theme must not include images that could be offensive or exclusionary to any groups.” A country’s history becomes offensive only when the events of the past are used as an instrument of accusation, and the description of historical realities is turned into a moral tribunal

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In Armenia, a monumental complex with a statue of Jesus Christ, planned to be one of the tallest in the world, is due to rise on the summit of Mount Ates by the end of 2026

In Armenia, a monumental complex with a statue of Jesus Christ, planned to be one of the tallest in the world, is due to rise on the summit of Mount Ates, some 30 km from Yerevan, by the end of 2026. The statue itself will stand 33 metres high, and

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It seems to me that we have an enlightened feudalism, multiplied by high technology

It seems to me that we have an enlightened feudalism, multiplied by high technology. Modern feudal lords travel not in carriages but in “six-hundred” Mercedes. And they keep their money not in chests but in Swiss banks. But mentally they are no different from the feudal lords of the

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An interesting episode from the early history of copyright is connected with these frescoes of the Montauto Chapel, or Chapel of San Girolamo, painted in the 1560s by the young artist Alessandro Allori

An interesting episode from the early history of copyright is connected with these frescoes of the Montauto Chapel, or Chapel of San Girolamo, painted in the 1560s by the young artist Alessandro Allori. Having completed the decoration, Allori confessed that he had borrowed the images for it from Michelangelo, who

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In Paris, a cornice has collapsed at the Church of Saint-Roch

In Paris, a cornice has collapsed at the Church of Saint-Roch. Thank God, no one was hurt City activists had been raising the alarm about the church's precarious condition, and the town hall's inaction, for more than ten years

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Boris Yeltsin, First Secretary of the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of the CPSU, with his wife Naina Yeltsina at the 8 March celebrations

Boris Yeltsin, First Secretary of the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of the CPSU, with his wife Naina Yeltsina at the 8 March celebrations. Approximately 1977–1980, the city of Sverdlovsk