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Any woman can become a bride again even years after her marriage and birth of her children. She can appear in a white

dress and look as beautiful as she was on the day of her real wedding. Such a nice event this parade of brides is!

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This is a book of English for third-grade pupils published in 1953. There

are many interesting details in it which characterize that epoch.

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The most colorful holiday was celebrated on the specially prpeared territory but it didn't affect

the atmosphere and the mood of people. Some pictures of the event are inside the post.

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These are unique pictures of those who lived on the territory of

modern-day Ukraine at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.

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Citizens of Stavropol, Russia, are against islamization of their city. While the local authorities do nothing about it, they try to struggle against Islam the ways the can. Thus, they decided to follow the example of citizens of a Spanish city Seville who buried a pig's body under the

construction site of a new mosque. According to the Islamic law this animal is evil and it profanes the place where a mosque is being built. The court repeatedly held that the construction of the mosque had to stop but it still continues. By the way the judge was Muslim too...

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It is so nice to meet with friends and sit for awhile at a table full

of tasty food! In a good company even vodka seems to be sweet!

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It goes without saying, it's Japan we call the land of rising sun, but it's Yakutia where people really do meet the rising sun! There are thousands of them and they raise

their hands towards the sun on the day of summer solstice. It's hard to convey the atmosphere and energetics of the holiday with words, but it's truly amazing.

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Interesting art photographies were sold recently at Sotheby's in London. There was a presented a collection of 155 pictures of "forbidden" Soviet photographers who tried to show everyday life in the USSR honestly, the way it really was. Thirty four lots were sold in total, their general cost

amounted to 313250 pounds sterling. Inside this post you can see the photos taken in the period from 1959 to 2004, they give us a chance to look at the Soviet epoch the way it was seen by those photographers who were working out of view of the Soviet government.