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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%E1%BA%A7n%20Tr%E1%BB%A5%20Tr%E1%BB%9Di
Thần Trụ Trời
Thần Trụ Trời or Ông Trụ Trời (lit. "Pillar of Heaven"), with some versions calling him Khổng Lồ ( lit. "The Giant"), is the first god in some traditions of Vietnamese mythology, being the one who created the world by building pillars to separate heaven and earth. Mythology At that time, there were no creatures on ea...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fawn%20Fire
Fawn Fire
At least 555 firefighting personnel were engaged on the fire using bulldozers to create firebreaks, water tenders to defend structures and attack spot fires, and over a dozen air tankers and helicopters dropping fire retardant and water in an effort to reduce the intensity and rate of spread of the fire. During the hei...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe%20Gorla
Giuseppe Gorla
Giuseppe Gorla (1895–1979) was an Italian civil engineer and politician who was a member of the National Fascist Party. Between 1940 and 1943 he served as the minister of public works. Early life and education Gorla was born in Vernate on 6 September 1895. He studied civil engineering at the University of Pavia. Durin...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Lovenia
Mount Lovenia
Mount Lovenia is a mountain summit located on the common border that Duchesne County shares with Summit County in the U.S. state of Utah. Description Mount Lovenia is set within the High Uintas Wilderness on land managed by Ashley National Forest. It is situated along the crest of the Uinta Mountains which are a subs...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imogen%20Ayris
Imogen Ayris
Imogen Ayris (born 12 December 2000) is a New Zealand athlete who competes in the pole vault. She won the bronze medal in the pole vault representing her country at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. Biography Ayris was born in Auckland on 12 December 2000, the daughter of Barny and Bridget Ayris. She was educated at Takapu...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yee%20I-Lann
Yee I-Lann
Yee I-Lann (born 1971) is a Malaysian contemporary artist known for her works using photography, collage, film, collaborative weaving, and everyday objects. Her practice examines power, colonialism, and neocolonialism in Southeast Asia to explore the impact of historic memory on social experience. Since 2018, Yee has b...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad%20Abdullah%20Malibari
Muhammad Abdullah Malibari
Muhammad Abdullah Malibari (Arabic: محمد عبد الله مليباري ) was a Saudi writer, storyteller, journalist and critic, who is considered as one of the pioneers of journalism and story in the Kingdom. Along with Fouad Angawi he founded Al Riyada (Sports), the first sports newspaper in the history of Saudi Arabia. He was b...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flinders%20Reef%20%28Coral%20Sea%29
Flinders Reef (Coral Sea)
Flinders Reef or Flinders Reefs is an isolated oceanic coral reef in the Coral Sea of the western Pacific Ocean. It lies east of Australia and the extensive Great Barrier Reef. Due to its remote location, it remains poorly studied. However, this isolation has also made it a potential site to mark the beginning of the A...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad%20Husayn%20Zaydan
Muhammad Husayn Zaydan
He also contributed and participated in many literature conferences, both internally and externally. Muhammad Husayn Zaydan worked as a teacher in the Saudi school in Medina, teaching Islamic topics in 1346H, then taught the Salafi belief in the orphanage in Madinah, then he was appointed as an assistant director and c...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Bahir%20Dar
History of Bahir Dar
During the Ethiopian Civil War, in May 1988, the 3rd Corp of the Third Revolutionary (TLA) made its headquarters at Bahir Dar. On 3–4 March 1990, the TLA abandoned Bahir Dar, blowing up a nearby bridge to prevent the TPLF/EPRDF occupying the city. On 23 February 1991, the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Fro...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teatro%20Fraschini
Teatro Fraschini
The Teatro Fraschini is an opera house in Pavia, Italy. History The Theater of the Four Noble Knights – the original name of Fraschini – was designed to counter the whims of the noble Giacomo Omodei, an aristocrat from Pavia and owner of one of the most popular theaters in the city around the middle of the 18th centu...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentecostal%20Presbyterian%20Church
Pentecostal Presbyterian Church
The Pentecostal Presbyterian Church (in Portuguese Igreja Presbiteriana Pentecostal or IPP) is a denomination of orientation Pentecostal, founded on November 18, 1974, in Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro from a group of dissident members of the Presbyterian Church of Brazil, who adhered to the Pentecostal doctrin...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titris%20Hoyuk
Titris Hoyuk
Titris Hoyuk (also Titriş Höyük) is an ancient Near East archaeological site in Turkey. It lies 45 kilometers north of Şanlıurfa, near the Euphrates River valley. It is a two-period site from the 3rd millennium BC. Unlike most archaeological sites in the region, the primary focus has been on excavating non-elite, mostl...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Adams%20%28architect%29
John Adams (architect)
John Adams (died 1938) was a British architect, active in Uruguay at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Early life John Adams was born in Brighton, UK, towards the end of the 19th century. He attended school in Weybridge, and later studied architecture and construction in Bath and London at the R...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardikiotis%20Grivas
Gardikiotis Grivas
Gardikiotis Grivas (1803 – 23 April 1855), was a Greek leader in the Greek War of Independence in 1821. He distinguished himself in many battles, especially in the Battle of Arachova. He also served as Othon 's aide, undertaking to deal with the movement of 3 September 1843, as well as the rebellion of his brother, The...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Esp%C3%ADrito%20Santo
History of Espírito Santo
Duarte de Lemos founded Vitória - at the time called Vila Nova - on the island of Santo Antônio, in a strategic position, more advantageous than Vila Velha for defense against the constant attacks of the natives. At the same time, Jesuit missionaries arrived and engaged in catechesis, which caused clashes with the sett...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Esp%C3%ADrito%20Santo
History of Espírito Santo
The strategic position of the captaincy, given its proximity to Rio de Janeiro, led to some foreign invasion attempts. In 1592, the Capixabas (natives to the state) repulsed an English onslaught, under the command of Thomas Cavendish. In 1625, the donee Francisco de Aguiar Coutinho faced the first Dutch attack, command...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leninist%20Young%20Communist%20League%20of%20Lithuania
Leninist Young Communist League of Lithuania
The Leninist Young Communist League of Lithuania ( or LLKJS) or Lithuanian Komsomol () was the Lithuanian branch of the Soviet Komsomol that served as the youth organ of the Communist Party of Lithuania. The organization was for youth ages 14 to 28. Younger children were organized into Pioneers (ages 10 to 14) and Litt...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild%20Men%27s%20Dance
Wild Men's Dance
Wild Men's Dance (aka Danse Sauvage) is a piano work by Russian-American composer Leo Ornstein, dating from either 1913 or 1914. It is widely regarded as the first classical composition to be composed almost entirely of brash tone clusters, predating the "forearm" music of Henry Cowell by a few years. In 1918, critic C...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motts%20Creek%20%28Nassau%20County%2C%20New%20York%29
Motts Creek (Nassau County, New York)
Motts Creek (also known as Foster's Brook) is a stream in the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, on the South Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States. Description Motts Creek runs between Franklin Square and Jamaica Bay. The creek begins underneath Rath Park in Franklin Square, flowing towards the south, we...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisheva%20Baumgarten
Elisheva Baumgarten
Elisheva Baumgarten is the Yitzchak Becker Professor of Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is an expert on the social and religious history of the Jews of medieval northern Europe (1000-1400). Her research includes those who did not write the sources that have been transmitted, focusing particula...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los%20Angeles%20County%20Department%20of%20Beaches%20and%20Harbors
Los Angeles County Department of Beaches and Harbors
The Los Angeles County Department of Beaches and Harbors is responsible for 20 beaches and the Marina Del Rey small-craft harbor in Los Angeles County, California. Marina The department also manages the Marina Del Rey small-craft harbor, which has “4,600 boat slips in 23 marinas” and brings in nearly $60 million annu...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%20of%20the%20Fur%20Trade
Women of the Fur Trade
Women of the Fur Trade is a play by written by Frances Koncan about the Métis-led Red River Resistance against European colonisers. It premiered in 2020. Production The play is written by Frances Koncan of Couchiching First Nation. 2020 production In the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre's 2020 production that ran at t...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug%20%28Canadian%20play%29
Bug (Canadian play)
Bug is a play by Indigenous playwright Yolanda Bonnell that was a Governor General's Award 2020 finalist. The play is the story of an Indigenous mother and daughter, their substance addictions, incorporating themes of racialised and colonial violence. Production Bug was written by Yolanda Bonnell of Fort William Firs...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland%20Pym
Roland Pym
Roland Vivian Pym (12 June 1910 ― 12 January 2006) was a British painter, illustrator and theatrical designer. Known for his elegant romanticism, Pym's work celebrated fashionable London society as well as country life, and drew comparisons to the more prominent Rex Whistler. Early life Born in Cheveley, a village jus...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom%20of%20Western%20Georgia
Kingdom of Western Georgia
Georgian Civil War and final independence In 1455, Bagrat, maternal grandson of Duke Demetrius of Imereti, inherited the duchy and became a loyal vassal to the Georgian crown. However, in the early 1460s, he allied himself with the Georgian prince Qvarqvare II of Samtskhe, who continued his dynastic struggle against th...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic%20Orthodox%20Sunday%20School%20Movement
Coptic Orthodox Sunday School Movement
Events at the start of the 19th century, such as the French Expedition to Egypt, and the rise of Muhammad Ali, lead to a further increase in European influence and presence in Egypt. Muhammad Ali sought to establish an independent nation state in Egypt, similar to those of Western Europe. To achieve this mission he ope...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic%20Orthodox%20Sunday%20School%20Movement
Coptic Orthodox Sunday School Movement
Foundations of the Sunday School Movement In 1898, while still a student at the Cairo Coptic Seminary, Habib Girgis began informally gathering every Sunday with the children at Saint Mary's Church in Faggala to teach them about the Bible, Coptic rites, church history, and the lives of the saints and martyrs. In these ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Lion%2C%20the%20Witch%2C%20and%20the%20Wardrobe%20%282017%20play%29
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (2017 play)
The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe is a stage adaptation of the book of the same name by C. S. Lewis, the first installment of The Chronicles of Narnia. The play was devised by the original company with Adam Peck as the writer in the room. Synopsis The play follows the four Pevensie children, Peter, Susan, Edmund,...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AzaadiSAT
AzaadiSAT
AzaadiSAT was an Indian Earth observation 8U Cubesat weighing around 8 kg developed by the Space Kidz India as a test payload on the maiden launch of the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV). It was hitching a ride with EOS-02, the primary satellite of the mission. The launch on 7 August 2022 was a failure in the rock...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilophus%20nigrostigma
Dilophus nigrostigma
Dilophus nigrostigma is a species of Bibionidae fly endemic to New Zealand. It is the largest and most common species of Dilophus in New Zealand. Taxonomy Dilophus nigrostigma was first described as Bibio nigrostigma in 1848. In 1901, Frederick Hutton reclassified the species into the genus Dilophus. D. nigrostigma ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva%20Duldig
Eva Duldig
She was the highest-ranked female player for the Netherlands in the first Federation Cup, held in 1957 at Queens Club. In June 1963 she played in the 1963 Federation Cup against Switzerland, defeating Alice Wavre in singles, and winning in doubles against Janine Bourgnon and Anne-Marie Studer with her partner Jenny Rid...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lal%20Dighi%2C%20Chittagong
Lal Dighi, Chittagong
Lal Dighi is an area located in Chittagong, Bangladesh. Its location is at the end of Jail Road in the city. Lal Dighi is spread over an area of 2.70 acres. On one side of it is Andarkilla. Around it are district council buildings and local bank branches. It belongs to Ward No. 32 of Chittagong City Corporation. Histo...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runic%20animal
Runic animal
Runic animals () are the decorative animal figures on runic inscriptions, especially on runestones, which belong to and the like. These figures traditionally take the shape of slender serpentine creatures, such as serpents, dragons and other beasts, and usually form the runic bands on which the inscription is affixed ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian%20locomotive%20class%20SP
Indian locomotive class SP
Engines built to this design worked the broad-gauge lines of British Indian railways; however, only government-operated railways designated these locomotives as the SP class. Beyer, Peacock and Company delivered 10 locomotives to the North Western Railway (NWR), which became the Pakistan Western Railway and the Eastern...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cain%20and%20Abel%20%28Titian%29
Cain and Abel (Titian)
Cain and Abel (Italian: Caino e Abele) is an oil painting by the Venetian painter Titian. It was made in about 1543–1545 for the church of Santo Spirito, but is now in the basilica of Santa Maria della Salute. Subject The scene in question is the first murder recounted in the Genesis narrative. Cain and Abel were two ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexa%20Beiser
Alexa Beiser
Alexa S. Beiser is an American professor of biostatistics and public health researcher. Biography Beiser did her PhD in mathematics at Boston University, following her M.A. at the University of California, San Diego in Applied Mathematics and B.A. in Biology and Psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheval%20mirror
Cheval mirror
Most researchers assume the cheval mirror to be a European invention (however, Wu Hung asserts that the furniture piece was first created in China using European glass panes). The European glass manufacturing breakthrough started in 1664, when Jean-Baptiste Colbert stole the secrets of mirror manufacturing from Venice,...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Revue%20Universelle
La Revue Universelle
La Revue universelle was a French periodical published in Paris from 1920 to 1944. It was founded by Jacques Bainville (director) and Henri Massis (editor-in-chief) following the publication of the manifesto "Pour un parti de l'intelligence" in Le Figaro on July 19, 1919. The journal's program aimed to "unite all who, ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris%2C%20Linn%20County%2C%20Kansas
Paris, Linn County, Kansas
Paris was the first county seat of Linn County, Kansas, in the United States. It once had a population of about 300 or 400 people and was abandoned in the 1860s. It was a rallying point for pro-slavery men during Bleeding Kansas. History Paris was named for Paris, Kentucky, the former home of James L. Barlow, "a lawye...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient%20masculinization
Transient masculinization
Transient masculinization (or transient virilization) is a biological phenomenon in which female individuals of certain species temporarily exhibit physical or behavioral traits typically associated with males. Unlike permanent masculinization, which results in lifelong male-like characteristics, transient masculinizat...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Majdi%20fi%20Ansab%20al-Talibiyyin
Al-Majdi fi Ansab al-Talibiyyin
As Ibn Sufi himself says, from childhood he studied various sciences, especially genealogy, and benefited from the presence of great masters. Ibn Tawus (a Shiite jurist, theologian, historian and astrologer) considered Ibn Sufi as the foremost genealogist of his time, and according to Ibn Inabah (a Shiite historian and...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Majdi%20fi%20Ansab%20al-Talibiyyin
Al-Majdi fi Ansab al-Talibiyyin
The last section of the book is about the genealogy of the descendants of Aqil ibn Abi Talib (an elder brother of Ali). This section mentions that Aqil ibn Abi Talib's nickname is "Abu Yazid" and that he had 18 sons. The final article in the book is about the genealogy of Aqil ibn Abi Talib's grandson, "Ja'far ibn Abdu...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galerie%20Miethke
Galerie Miethke
Miethke began an exhibition of the work of the Austrian painter Franz Rumpler in April 1897. The gallery displayed over 200 works by Rumpler, the Viennese Academy professor, encompassing oil paintings, watercolors, and drawings. The Austrian emperor Franz Joseph I notably visited the Rumpler Exhibition at the gallery o...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delacorte%20Fountain
Delacorte Fountain
There were instances when the Delacorte Fountain was not operated due to conservation measures or equipment issues. The fountain was shut down in the mid-1970s during New York City's fiscal crisis, saving the city a cost of $48,000 from the fountain's annual electricity bill. It was also turned off during periods of dr...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbegane%20Ndour
Mbegane Ndour
Mbegane Ndour, also spelled Mbegaan Nduur, was the founder and first king of the Kingdom of Saloum in present-day Senegal. Family and Early Life According the legend, Mbegane Ndour was the nephew of Maad a Sinig Maissa Wali, although this is likely a later invention to legitimate him, as the timelines do not match up....
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1.5-degree%20target
1.5-degree target
Compared to the current global warming projections by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), achieving the 1.5-degree target could force 80 percent fewer people to migrate due to climate change, as fewer areas of the Earth would become uninhabitable. According to CAN Europe, aligning Europe with the 1.5-...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius%20Manlius%20Capitolinus%20Imperiosus
Lucius Manlius Capitolinus Imperiosus
Lucius Manlius Capitolinus Imperiosus, A. f. A. n. (or "Lucius Manlius Capitolinus Imperiosus, son of Aulus, grandson of Aulus", see Roman filiation), was a politician of ancient Rome, of the Manlia gens, who lived in the 4th century BCE. He was the father of the noted general of the Roman Republic, Titus Manlius Imper...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punk%20ferox
Punk ferox
Punk ferox is a species of aplacophoran mollusc known from the Homerian Coalbrookdale Formation of England. It is the only species within the genus Punk. Description Punk is elongate and vermiform, with rounded anterior and posterior ends. The dorsal surface bears a median ridge which widens near the anterior, with ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan%20Nanhu%20Airport
Wuhan Nanhu Airport
In 1974, to accommodate larger airplanes such as the Antonov An-24, the runway length was further extended to . From 1976 to 1984, more renovation works were carried out to the airport premises in order for flights using larger planes to land at the airport. As part of the sixth five-year plan, Nanhu Airport underwent...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre-Dame-de-Grace%20de%20Passy
Notre-Dame-de-Grace de Passy
Interior The interior is especially striking because of the contrast between the sobriety of the nave, with its white walls and geometric decoration, and the choir, entirely covered with frescoes and decoration. The interior is composed of three naves. The two lateral aisles of the naves extend behind the choir, wher...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20Army%20during%20Vietnam%20War
United States Army during Vietnam War
The infiltration course offered a high degree of realism, stress and confidence building. At night, the recruits entered a trench that ran perpendicular to the line of fire of several machine guns. From the trench, they crawled towards the machine guns, which fired tracer rounds over their heads as they crawled through...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20Treleaven
Philip Treleaven
Financial Computing Treleaven established the UCL Financial Computing Research Group over 30 years ago. His research students developed the first Insider Dealing Detection system for the London Stock Exchange, and then developed early systems for financial fraud detection, launching the SearchSpace company. Working wi...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20Treleaven
Philip Treleaven
AI for Social Good Treleaven, working with Dr Dan Brown (UCL, MegaNexus) has a program called AI for Social Good. The program uses GenAI to support socially excluded and disadvantaged groups (e.g., people in prison, people on probation, refugees,long-term unemployed, low-aspiration young people in education), thereby ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ga-68-Trivehexin
Ga-68-Trivehexin
Since 68Ga is a positron emitter, 68Ga-Trivehexin is applicable for PET imaging. However, PET is rarely used as a standalone imaging technique these days because most clinics use PET/CT or even PET/MRI systems, which provide more detailed and useful medical information to the physician. For clinical PET/CT diagnostics...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maa%20Ratneshwari%20Temple
Maa Ratneshwari Temple
Maa Ratneshwari Temple, also known as Maa Ratneshwari Mandir or locally called Durga Asthan, is a Hindu temple located in the eastern part of Ratanpur Abhiman, in Darbhanga, Bihar. The temple is dedicated to Maa Durga in her Lakshmi Swarupa form and has been a site of religious significance for centuries. It was establ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bijai%20Singh%20of%20Alirajpur
Bijai Singh of Alirajpur
Bijai Singh (sometimes Bijay Singh, Waje Singh or Vijay Singh) was Rana of Alirajpur from 1881 until his death on 16 August 1890. Education He was educated at the Daly College, Indore. He remained there until 1888. Succession When Rup Deo died in 1881 without leaving behind a male heir to succeed him, and as he hel...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability%20Hardware%20Enhanced%20RISC%20Instructions
Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions
In 2015 CHERI introduced a new capability encoding model that separated the address (referred to as a cursor) from the bounds and permissions. This refinement allowed capabilities to function as pointers in compiled C code, improving usability. That same year, Arm joined the project and provided critical feedback, high...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan%20de%20Velasco%2C%20Count%20of%20Siruela
Juan de Velasco, Count of Siruela
Juan Velasco de la Cueva y Pacheco (Madrid, 1608 - 1652), VIII Count of Siruela, was a Spanish noble, diplomat and Governor of the Duchy of Milan. Biography He was a son of Gabriel de Velasco y la Cueva and Victoria Pacheco, and was baptized on 11 October 1608 the parish church of Santiago in Madrid. He inherited th...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack%20on%20the%20Brazilian%20Fort%20in%20Punta%20del%20Este
Attack on the Brazilian Fort in Punta del Este
Lavalleja was advised against pursuing this operation by Colonel José Brito del Pino, who opposed the idea stating that such trivial issue was beneath the rank of a general-in-chief of the army. Brito del Pino suggested entrusting the operation to Colonel Leonardo Olivera, Colonel Manuel Correa, or the distinguished Co...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiziano%20Peccia
Tiziano Peccia
Career Peccia joined UNESCO as a specialist in science policy and capacity building, undertaking field missions across Africa and Asia and working on public-private partnerships. He co-organized and served on the organizing and scientific committee of the UNESCO-MARS Summit. The summit trained over 500 African researc...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilian%20cuisine
Emilian cuisine
The cornerstone of Emilian cuisine is its pasta dishes, characterized by a dough made from soft wheat flour and eggs (without water). First and foremost are the tagliatelle, often served with Bolognese sauce (ragù) or diced ham sautéed in butter. A variation is the green tagliatelle, in which the dough includes chard, ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platycheirus%20brunnifrons
Platycheirus brunnifrons
Platycheirus brunnifrons, sometimes known as the copperhead sedgesitter, is a hoverfly found in high-altitude localities in Finland, Austria, France, Switzerland, Spain, Macedonia, Northeast Russia, and Alaska. It's larvae have not been identified. Adults feed on pollen and nectar primarily Salix sp. Description Th...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parade%20of%20the%20Fat%20Ox%20at%20the%20Paris%20Carnival
Parade of the Fat Ox at the Paris Carnival
During the First Empire, for example, in February 1813, the Child dressed as Cupid was occasionally replaced by the god Mars. Seven years later, Louvel attended the Fat Ox parade before fatally stabbing the Duke of Berry, and street festivities were subsequently banned by Police Prefect Jules Anglès. Printed programs, ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parade%20of%20the%20Fat%20Ox%20at%20the%20Paris%20Carnival
Parade of the Fat Ox at the Paris Carnival
The Bœuf Gras has been a source of inspiration in the arts, particularly in theater. The animal appears in a play with signboards performed during the 1712 Carnival by the Great Troupe of Rope Dancers from the Jeu de paume d'Orléans, at the Saint-Germain fair. In 1745, the revival of Lully's Thésée inspired a parody of...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B4tel%20de%20Ville%2C%20Cherbourg
Hôtel de Ville, Cherbourg
The building was extended to the southwest along Rue de la Paix in the neoclassical style to a design by Francois Dominique Geufroy in the mid-19th century. By then, the principal rooms included the Salle du Conseil (council chamber), grand salon (ballroom), le salon octogonal (octagonal room) and the salon de l'Impéra...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ambassadors%20of%20Sweden%20to%20Ethiopia
List of ambassadors of Sweden to Ethiopia
The Ambassador of Sweden to Ethiopia (known formally as the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Sweden to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia) is the official representative of the government of Sweden to the president of Ethiopia and government of Ethiopia. The Swedish ambassador to Ethiopia is also accredited to the...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Levelle%20%28explorer%29
James Levelle (explorer)
James Moorland Levelle (born 1980) is a filmmaker and explorer, who reported on the illegal tiger trade in Tibet, child-labour in the cotton fields of India, pirate fishing off the coast of Sierre Leone, the history of the gold rush in Alaska, and Southeast Asia's illegal logging industry. Early life and education Jam...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete%20Hovland
Pete Hovland
Chico State swimmer In the Fall of 1972, Hovland began attending Chico State in Chico, California, in the state's North Central region, 90 minutes North of Sacramento. In his first year, he swam with All American swimmers Steve Battin, Jerry Roster, Bob Grieve, and Jeff Lamb on the swimming roster. Hovland swam for fo...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th%20federal%20electoral%20district%20of%20the%20State%20of%20Mexico
16th federal electoral district of the State of Mexico
The 16th federal electoral district of the State of Mexico () is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of 40 such districts in the State of Mexico. It elects one deputy to the lower house of Congress for each three-year legislative sess...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine%20literature%20of%20the%20Komnenian%20and%20Angelid%20periods
Byzantine literature of the Komnenian and Angelid periods
Verse and prose romance Theodor Prodrom contributed to the revival of the ancient sophistic romance, which flourished between the 1st and 3rd century, with his work Rhodanthe and Dosicles. Prodrom gave it an erudite character while drawing on motifs from Eastern literatures. In his romance, Dosicles abducts the beauti...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine%20literature%20of%20the%20Komnenian%20and%20Angelid%20periods
Byzantine literature of the Komnenian and Angelid periods
Drama and satire From the time of Alexios I comes Christos Paschon, the only Byzantine drama. In this work, intended for reading rather than performance, the characters include the Virgin Mary, modeled on Euripidean heroines, along with Christ, Saint John, Saint Joseph, and two semi-choruses of Galilean women. 12th-c...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine%20literature%20of%20the%20Komnenian%20and%20Angelid%20periods
Byzantine literature of the Komnenian and Angelid periods
The imperial secretary, John Tzetzes (c. 1110–1186), authored a 12,764-line historical-literary poem titled The Chiliads. He also wrote Allegories on Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Pre-Homeric, Homeric, and Post-Homeric Events, the interpretative poem Theogony, commentaries on Hesiod's Works and Days and Shield, three come...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law%20of%20constancy%20of%20interfacial%20angles
Law of constancy of interfacial angles
The law of constancy of interfacial angles (; ) is an empirical law in the fields of crystallography and mineralogy concerning the shape, or morphology, of crystals. The law states that the angles between adjacent corresponding faces of crystals of a particular substance are always constant despite the different shapes...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasterosteus%20doryssus
Gasterosteus doryssus
Gasterosteus doryssus is an extinct species of freshwater stickleback fish that inhabited inland freshwater habitats of the North American Great Basin during the Miocene. It is known from thousands of articulated fossil skeletons, comprising various age classes and two different ecomorphs, discovered in diatomite depos...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Mausoleum%2C%20Castle%20Howard
The Mausoleum, Castle Howard
The Mausoleum is a historic building on the Castle Howard estate in North Yorkshire, in England. The mausoleum was designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor between 1726 and 1729, its design inspired by the Tomb of Caecilia Metella and the alleged Tomb of Lars Porsena. It was constructed by William Etty from 1729 to 1742, and b...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alienum
Alienum
Alienum velamenus is an extinct animal from the late Ediacaran. Estimated to be about 541 million years old, A. velamenus has been identified as possibly being the oldest known vetulicolian, predating the first known species by 20 Ma. It was discovered in 2024 from the Dengying Formation in South China. Discovery and ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardo%20de%20Vargas%20Machuca
Bernardo de Vargas Machuca
Bernardo de Vargas Machuca (Simancas, 1555 - Madrid, 1622) was a Spanish soldier, writer, naturalist, veterinarian and conquistador. Biography Bernardo de Vargas Machuca was born in Simancas, a town in the present-day Province of Valladolid, in 1555 (some sources say 1557), to Juan Vargas, warden of the castle in tha...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton%20Swap%20Meet
Compton Swap Meet
The Compton Swap Meet (officially Compton Fashion Center) was an indoor swap meet that sold the music of early gangsta rap artists. Wan Joon Kim began selling records of the genre at his stall, Cycadelic Records, in the 1980s. He became known as the "godfather of gangsta rap". Kim, a North Korean defector who had immi...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton%20Swap%20Meet
Compton Swap Meet
A music wholesaler recommended that Kim sell African-American music such as hip-hop. Gangsta rap was an obscure genre that few stores sold due to its references to violence and drug use. Kim was a fan of classical music and needed his daughter to help him understand the English used in gangsta rap songs, but he liked s...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipadtarini%20Chandibari%2C%20Rajpur
Bipadtarini Chandibari, Rajpur
Bipadtarini Chandibari or Bipattarini Chandibari is a Hindu temple dedicated to the Hindu goddess Bipadtarini, one of the aspect goddess and 108 avatars of Maa Durga. Located on S.B. Das Road in Rajpur Sonarpur, South 24 Parganas in West Bengal, it is one of the few and most important shrines of Maa Bippatarini in the ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipadtarini%20Chandibari%2C%20Rajpur
Bipadtarini Chandibari, Rajpur
Temple complex The temple complex also houses deities of other Hindu gods and goddesses. To the left of Maa Bipadtarini Chandi is the idol of Lord Jagannath. On further left is the idol of Radha Krishna. On the right of Maa Bipadtarini Chandi is the picture of Baba Dulal, the establisher of the temple. On further righ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Medal%20for%20Leroy
A Medal for Leroy
A Medal for Leroy is a British children's novel written by Michael Morpurgo, and illustrated by Michael Foreman. It was originally published in Great Britain by HarperCollins in September 2012. The inspiration behind the novel is Walter Tull, Britain's first black Army officer to lead white British troops into battle. ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s%20Largest%20Menorah
World's Largest Menorah
The World's Largest Menorah is a public Hanukkah menorah located at Grand Army Plaza near Central Park in Manhattan, New York City. Standing 32 feet (9.75 meters) tall and weighing approximately 4,000 pounds (1,814 kilograms), it has been a prominent fixture in New York City's annual Hanukkah celebrations since its fir...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen%20Diss
Eileen Diss
Eileen Diss, (13 May 1931 – 5 November 2024) was a British set designer for stage, television and film. She won six BAFTA awards, a Lifetime Achievement Award for Design from the Royal Television Society in 2002, and a BAFTA Lifetime Achievement Special Craft Award in 2006. Early life and education Diss was born on 1...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu%20Yun%20%28Tang%20dynasty%29
Wu Yun (Tang dynasty)
Wu Yun (; died 778) was a Chinese poet, writer, and Taoist mystic active during the Tang dynasty. According to the two standard histories of the period, Wu served in Emperor Xuanzong's court as a member of the Hanlin Academy but left Chang'an shortly before the An Lushan rebellion broke out. According to Taoist scholar...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu%20Yun%20%28Tang%20dynasty%29
Wu Yun (Tang dynasty)
According to the thirteenth-century hagiographical collection Lishi zhenxian tidao tongjian (), Wu's departure from Chang'an was orchestrated by pro-Buddhist court eunuch Gao Lishi. The lost Wu tianshi neizhuan () or Intimate Biography of Celestial Master Wu is attributed to a certain Xie Liangsi () in a few late Tang...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiner%20K%C3%BCmmel
Reiner Kümmel
Reiner Kümmel (born 9 July 1939 in Fulda) is a German physicist specialised in solid-state physics, thermodynamics and econophysics. Scientific career Reiner Kümmel studied physics and mathematics at TH Darmstadt from 1959 to 1964. He received a scholarship from the Cusanuswerk and completed his doctorate on supercon...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burkina%20Faso%E2%80%93France%20relations
Burkina Faso–France relations
Aid and collaboration France is Burkina Faso’s leading bilateral donor and one of 19 priority countries in its development policy. In 2022, the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), a partner of Burkina Faso for 60 years, allocated €83 million to key sectors like water, sanitation, education, energy, and local deve...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Foreign%20Sound
A Foreign Sound
Veloso states that the album's foreign tracks mainly refer to his childhood and memories. He also described it as an "alien disk" because "the English-speaking world is a somewhat uncomfortable intrusion due to its claim to intervene in a critical way". In his memoir, Tropical Truth: A Story of Music & Revolution in Br...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena%20Polaczk%C3%B3wna
Helena Polaczkówna
Helena Polaczkówna (1881–1942) was a Polish historian, archivist, sigillologist, and authority in the field of heraldry. She became a war resistor during World War II. She was arrested by German occupiers in Lviv for allowing secret activities to take place in her apartment and was murdered in the Majdanek concentratio...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei%20Demurenko
Andrei Demurenko
Andrei Vladimirovich Demurenko (; born 28 April 1955) is a Russian Ground Forces colonel and military commentator. He was the chief of staff of the United Nations Protection Force in the Sarajevo sector in 1995, during the Bosnian War, and was the deputy director of the peacekeeping department at the Russian General St...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion%20in%20the%20Achaemenid%20era
Religion in the Achaemenid era
Religion in the Achaemenid Empire (Persian: دین در دوران هخامنشی ), continues to be a source of debate among academics. The available knowledge about the religious orientation of many of the early Achaemenid kings is incomplete, and the issue of Zoroastrianism of the Achaemenids has been a very controversial issue. Be...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion%20in%20the%20Achaemenid%20era
Religion in the Achaemenid era
Anahita Since the reign of Artaxerxes II the name of the goddess Anahita is mentioned in inscriptions alongside Ahura Mazda and Mitra, and it is mentioned that the palace of Apadana was built at the request of Ahura Mazda, Nahed and Mitra. In this regard, Roman Ghershman writes that Anahita was worshipped by the Acha...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mise%20%28mythology%29
Mise (mythology)
Mise or Misé () is an Anatolian goddess addressed in one of the Orphic Hymns. She is first mentioned in a mime by the Greek poet Herodas, which references a "Descent of Mise". In the Orphic Hymn addressed to her, she is identified with Dionysus, and depicted as a female version of the god. She is also named in two insc...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20LaRue%20Johnson
Daniel LaRue Johnson
Daniel LaRue Johnson (1938–2017) was an American abstract sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Early life and education Daniel LaRue Johnson was born in 1938 in Los Angeles. While in high school, he met painter Virginia Jaramillo. Johnson staged his first solo art exhibition in 1953 at a community center in Pasadena. He...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Indian%20English%20Novel%3A%20Nation%2C%20History%20and%20Narration
The Indian English Novel: Nation, History and Narration
The book discusses around forty novels. Most were written in what after 1948 became India, but some were composed in what became Pakistan and Bangladesh, and chapter 8 especially focuses on writing by the Indian diaspora, including Bharati Mukherjee, M. G. Vassanji, V. S. Naipaul and Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Subu...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third%20Seuna%20Civil%20War
Third Seuna Civil War
The Senua Civil War was a late 13th-century civil war within the Seuna (Yadava) dynasty of the Deccan region. The brothers, Ramchandra Yadava and Ammana, fought against each other to take control of the kingdom. With the help of his generals Hemad Pant and Tikkama Saluva, Ramchandra was victorious. Ammana's forces were...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucholoeops
Eucholoeops
The postcrania of Eucholoeops are represented by limb elements. The humerus is large, with a proximal portion (that close to the body) that is subcylindrical and widen into a flattened distal portion (that far from the body): this condition is seen in all non-mylodontid sloths. Similar to Hapalops, the lesser tubercle ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festive%20Procession%20with%20a%20Song.%20Kolyada
Festive Procession with a Song. Kolyada
A boy and a girl run from the alley. On the right side of the picture is a rich courtyard with a big stone house and columns along the front. The building is divided into three vertical rows of images, with three images in each row. In the top horizontal row there are three waist-up portraits: Dorofei Ivanovich, his wi...
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