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The Olympic medals of the 2024 Paris Games will be inlaid with hexagonal plates of iron taken from the Eiffel Tower, a direct nod to the chief symbol of France
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A group of 90 Catholic priests, scholars and writers asks bishops and cardinals to reject the Vatican declaration approving the blessing of same-sex couples and to refuse to implement it in their dioceses
A group of 90 Catholic priests, scholars and writers asks bishops and cardinals to reject the Vatican declaration approving the blessing of same-sex couples and to refuse to implement it in their dioceses. Odd that only 90 of them could be found
Education · Society · Humour
Until 1956, when the sole code of Russian spelling and punctuation, approved by the authorities and the USSR Academy of Sciences, was adopted, the verbs ПРИЙТИ, ПРИДТИ and even ПРИТТИ were all considered equally valid; after the reform, only ПРИЙТИ…
Until 1956, when the sole code of Russian spelling and punctuation, approved by the authorities and the USSR Academy of Sciences, was adopted, the verbs ПРИЙТИ, ПРИДТИ and even ПРИТТИ were all considered equally valid; after the reform, only ПРИЙТИ was left as correct. So if you still spell it
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A Secret History
A Secret History. Margaret Thatcher, aged 57, Prime Minister of Great Britain, pirate, witch and murderess. Guilty! Margaret Thatcher as a pirate in the Argentine press after Britain's invasion of the Malvinas, or Falkland Islands, in 1982. The islands remain a disputed territory: Argentina regards them as occupied
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Nicholas II before the Two Chambers of the State Duma, Winter Palace, 1906
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If it is good to know how to use men as they are, it is far better still to make them what one needs them to be; the most absolute authority is that which penetrates into the inmost being of a man and exerts no less influence…
From Jean-Jacques Rousseau's article “Discourse on Political Economy” in the Encyclopédie
NB! · Archive · Mores · Society
The Rules of Honest Trade from the Sixteenth Century: Do Not Sell Dyed Cloth for Taffeta, Verdigris-Green Copper for Gold, or Glass for a Diamond
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Granddaughter of merchant Grigory Yeliseyev in the USSR gave an inheritance of millions of francs to the state
The merchant Grigory Grigoryevich Yeliseyev, one of the richest men in the country and grandson of the founder of a famous trading dynasty, managed to leave Russia in 1920; by then he had property and accounts abroad and had no difficulty arranging his life. But not all of his children
Archive · Faith · Moscow · Mores · Society
The Council Code of 1649 forbade Russians to serve unbaptised foreigners
The Arrival of Foreigners in Moscow in the Seventeenth Century, Sergei Vasilyevich Ivanov, 1901. Until the reign of Peter, all Europeans in Russia were called, and written down as, unbaptised. And the Council Code of 1649 laid down outright a prohibition on Russians serving, or being in bondage, to unbaptised
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Memorial to Rosa Luxemburg at the Landwehr Canal in Berlin, where her body was thrown in 1919
Memorial to Rosa Luxemburg in Berlin beside the Landwehr Canal, where she was murdered on 15 January 1919 together with Karl Liebknecht. The car in which they were being taken to prison was attacked. Rosa's body was thrown into the canal over this very railing, in which the
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