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Second Moscow Conference of October 1944 on the War with Japan, the Balkans and Poland

Stalin and Churchill at the Second Moscow Conference in October 1944. Drawing by the Swiss artist Lindi. The matters at issue were the Soviet Union's entry into the war against Japan and the postwar fate of the Balkans and Poland. Besides Stalin, Molotov and Churchill, the conference was

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People listen to the Prime Minister of Denmark proclaiming, from the balcony of Christiansborg Palace, Frederik as King of Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands

People listen to the Prime Minister of Denmark proclaiming, from the balcony of Christiansborg Palace, Frederik as King of Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands. The phrase “Long live King Frederik the Tenth!” is pronounced three times.

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Denmark is now ruled by Frederik X, but Queen Margrethe II will keep her title, unlike Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, who became Princess Beatrix after her abdication

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The Largest Cities of Europe in 1600

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"The Russian state has this advantage over others, that it is governed directly by God Himself; otherwise it is impossible to understand how it exists"

Count Münnich

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Yury Solomin and his successors as Russia's Minister of Culture from 1991

Yury Solomin was Russia's Minister of Culture during the collapse of the USSR, though only very briefly: less than a month at the end of 1991. This was still the Ministry of Culture of the RSFSR. By then Solomin was already artistic director of the Maly Theatre. It

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A vegetable garden in the moat of the Tower of London during the Second World War

A vegetable garden in the moat of the Tower of London during the Second World War. The moat was drained on the orders of the Duke of Wellington in the 1840s, to rid the city of the miasma of stagnant water; since then it had simply grown grass, on which

Imprint on an old page reading Paris, F. Buisson, printer and bookseller, rue Haute-Feuille no. 20, Year V of the Republic, 1797.

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Edition printed in Paris by F. Buisson in 1797, Year V of the Republic

The new reckoning from the founding of the First French Republic in September 1792, illustrated from the book trade:. printed in Paris in Year V of the Republic, or in the year 1797 from the Nativity of Christ.

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The Bishop of Copenhagen Gives the Queen of Denmark a Light

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Henry Ford Dismissed 800 Workers for Missing Work on Orthodox Christmas in 1914

In 1914 Henry Ford dismissed some 800 workers who failed to report for work on 7 January, when the Orthodox Church celebrates the Nativity of Christ. At that time this amounted to roughly 8% of all his workforce. Ford issued an order stating that if these men had chosen America

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Editors debated how to describe the Rothschilds' ethnicity and settled on Ashkenazi Jews

Wikipedia's article on the Rothschilds: "Jewish family" replaced with "European family" The article's edit history contains a lively discussion among editors about why the Rothschilds suddenly became a family with a "European background" instead of a "Jewish" one,

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In his treatise "On the Preservation and Increase of the Russian People", Lomonosov reflects on the importance of a proper attitude to fasting, recalling the number of deaths from overeating on the eve of the fast and immediately after its end, while at t

According to Lomonosov, "pure repentance is a good life, which inclines God to mercy, to bounty and to love of us. Keep the commandments given by Christ, on which hang all the law and the prophets: Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart (that is, not with