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On the Government's Manipulation of the Exchange Rate in Days of Old. Under Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich the weight of the kopeck was 0.5 grams of silver. In practice, however, coins of lesser weight were struck: first 0.48 grams, then 0.46-0.47 grams, until matters
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Art · Museums · Observations · Society
An African offers emeralds from the Chavor mine on a golden tray. To European sovereigns, by all appearances. Balthasar Permoser's sculpture of 1724 is on show at the Luxembourg Museum and, by and large, is not in the least archaic. The exploitation of Africa has since taken on
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An English soldier bids farewell to his family as he leaves for the Crimean War, the first combat encounter between the Russian and English armies on Russian territory. Before the Crimean War, England and Russia had been at odds in 1807-1812, during the Anglo-Russian War, but mostly at
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First, skin colour is sometimes the only thing that unites black people born in different countries. A black man from the Bronx has far more in common with a white man from the Bronx than with a black man from London, and still more so than with a black man
In the Press · London · Monarchies · Observations · Society
A Times columnist has criticised the ever-whining Meghan Markle, forever bemoaning persecution over the colour of her skin, and the black activist who caused the royal family to dismiss an 83-year-old maid of honour and made her repent before the whole world of a transgression she never
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The humiliations of an 83-year-old lady who gave her whole life to serving the Crown continue. Did you think only in Russia are people made to apologise on camera? Baroness Hussey, one of Elizabeth II's closest ladies-in-waiting, has once again been compelled to apologise
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Who said that propaganda for a higher birth rate can't be sweet? This touching poster of 1969 by V. Stepanov, for instance, inspires nothing but warm feelings
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To be angry that these people appeared in the one estate that had any education, any leisure and any security is senseless. Had these "princes, boyars, voivodes", these statssekretari and colonels not been the first to awake from moral hunger, and had they waited for physical hunger to
Geography · Monarchies · Society · Paris
On 8 May 1842, France's first railway disaster occurred on the line between Versailles and Paris. The train, returning from the celebration of King Louis-Philippe's birthday at Versailles, was running with two locomotives, one at the head of the train and one at the rear.