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Yesterday I read, in the writings of a certain expert, that Napoleon was a black African, since he was born in Corsica. I do not know whom such insinuations serve, but if one genuinely wishes to find black men in the ranks of Napoleon's army, one should look
Aristocracy · Monarchies · Society · People
This is the arrested 71-year-old German prince Heinrich XIII Reuss of Greiz from Bad Lobenstein, known for his alternative political views and one of the organisers of the planned seizure of the Reichstag in Germany. After the seizure of parliament and government, Heinrich XIII was to have been
Aristocracy · Monarchies · Society
A plot to overthrow the government has been uncovered in Germany. Arrests were carried out in 11 German states, and 25 people have been detained, among them former servicemen and adherents of far-right views. Among those held is one of the leaders of the group, a 71-year-old
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The lady in the foreground is delighted by the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment, which had introduced Prohibition in the USA. The ban on the production, transportation and sale of alcohol had been in force in the States since 1920. On 5 December 1933 Prohibition was repealed by the ratification
London · Museums · Heritage · Society
News of Progress in Talks between Greek Officials and the British Museum on the Repatriation of the Parthenon Sculptures Stolen by the English: a Tangible Shift May Be Coming on the Return of the "Elgin Marbles" to Greece. Firstly, strange as it may seem, after decades of Greek
Architecture · Observations · Heritage · Society
Not for nothing did I admire the Nizhny Novgorod Pakgauzy: by the end of the year they had won two prestigious awards at once. The first: Creative Space at the Russian Creative Awards, where they outstripped both Sevkabel Port and the Oktava cluster. The second: the Snob "Made in
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Moscow · Museums · Observations · Society
From time to time the news carries reports that some masterpiece has been found among the rubbish. Not long ago in Bavaria, originals by the Dutch artist Samuel van Hoogstraten and the Italian Pietro Bellotti were discovered in a dustbin. We, too, have something to boast about: two museums holding
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The author disputes the Treaty of Versailles and doubts that it will bring eternal peace and prosperity. The project gathers 24 European states under a single roof, as though anticipating the creation of the European Union. The borders of each country form a wedge, and all the wedges converge in
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The elder of a certain village in the Sychyovka district led a party of prisoners, taken by the peasants, into town. In his absence the villagers caught several more Frenchmen and at once brought them to the elder's wife, Vasilisa, to be dispatched whither they ought to go.
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Faith · Society · Rome
On 28 October 1965 Pope Paul VI promulgated a document known as the "Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions". It repealed the declaration of the collective guilt of the entire Jewish people made by Pope Innocent III 760 years earlier