Galileo Galilei's lunar sketches from 1609.

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«He who thinks he can do without others is greatly mistaken; but he who thinks others cannot do without him is even more mistaken.»

François VI de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
French writer

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«To perfect the mind, one must think more than memorize.»

© René Descartes (1596–1650)
French philosopher, mathematician, physicist, and mechanician. One of the founders of modern philosophy and analytic geometry, and a pivotal figure in the scientific revolution.

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Championship among African Americans for breaking the bottom of barrels with a running headbutt, USA, 1905

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Moscow, 1915

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Ivan Okhlobystin, Fyodor Bondarchuk, and Leonid Agutin, 1990s.

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A monument to the Russian scientist Dmitry Mendeleev in Bratislava.

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Books from the late 19th to the early 20th century — little masterpieces of art.

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Supermodels Christy Turlington and Stephanie Seymour, 1993.

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At 58, and later well into his sixties, Leo Tolstoy made three journeys on foot from Moscow to Yasnaya Polyana—each spanning over 200 kilometers, completed in just five to six days.

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Anji Bridge — the oldest preserved bridge in China. Believed to have been built around 605 AD. Height: 7.3 m.

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Abel Bikila, the first Ethiopian runner to win Olympic gold, sprints barefoot through the streets of Rome in 1960, leaving his competitors behind

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"Flood in the Bois de Boulogne in 1421" by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912).

In 1421, the Netherlands was struck by a devastating flood. Seventy-two villages were submerged, and around ten thousand people lost their lives.

According to legend—later inspiring the painting’s scene—after the disaster, survivors found a cradle washed ashore. A cat, soaked and trembling, leapt frantically from edge to edge inside. They moved to rescue the animal, only to discover, to their astonishment, an infant sleeping peacefully beneath it. Later, they realized the cat's movements had kept the cradle balanced, preventing it from capsizing.

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A life-sized sculptural composition of sumo wrestlers from 1890. On display at the Museum of Modern Art in Kumamoto, Japan.

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The phrase "Not worth the candle"

At its core, this expression comes from a card game term — meaning the stakes are so low that even a win wouldn't cover the cost of the candles needed to light the playing table.

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Crew of an American B-36 bomber in Arctic gear

Greenland, 1951

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Crew of a self-propelled howitzer Msta-S preparing shells for the next strike on Chechen militant positions, Second Chechen War.

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In the Russian Empire, blasphemy was punishable by complete loss of civil rights and up to 15 years of hard labor 😶

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At the officer commissioning ceremony for graduates of the flight school in Kamenz, Saxony. East Germany. 1988.

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Сундук Мертвеца — не сундук вовсе, а остров в Карибском море. В начале XVIII века пиратский капитан Эдвард Тич высажил там 15 мятежников, оставив им лишь бутылку рома. Те выжили — и спустя месяц вернулись на корабль. Именно им моряки посвятили свою песню.

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Actor Andrey Mironov and composer Raimonds Pauls at the "Blue Light" show, 1983

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