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In early may of this year at auction Sotheby's was sold to the famous painting by Edvard Munch "Creek". She went under the hammer for a record high price of almost 120 million dollars and became the most expensive piece of art in the world, ever exhibited at public auction.
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The ancient mysteries always attract modern man. Look, as if through a window into the mysteries hidden time civilizations help us maps of our world... we never knew.
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As a rule, recruitment agents takes intelligence time consuming and requires considerable financial investments. The Finance sometimes you can save money if the agent works for the idea. Time well saved, if the person himself wished to become an agent. This was the case with Stig Bellingham, Swedish counterintelligence, who wished to work on the USSR.
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Old-timers of Samara still call this former city outskirts as a ' village Mosstroy". The current generation hardly knows something about the history of this name. Meanwhile, in the first months of the great Patriotic war on this dull the edge was in full swing the construction of a large number of the plant.
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71 years ago the German troops without declaring war attacked the USSR, pastigov by surprise poorly trained and worse equipped with the Red army. At least, that illuminate the beginning of the great Patriotic war official sources. But some historians claim that Hitler did not attack the Soviet Union - he was forced to do it. Of course, this version causes many disputes and doubts. Still, let us consider, could it be actually.
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During the First world war in Turkey disappeared whole military unit. The disappearance it was very strange...Where did 267 British soldiers?
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- Yes you will see immediately immediately clear who is who, is an artist Azat Minnibaev flipping through a photo album and finds him a shot that captured near Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov. - In Nureyev's just a devil some were sitting. Those in the Middle ages was burned. He spent his entire life and flew as in one of the large Grand pas. If in childhood him an angel of the cuff gave...
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500 years rulers of Egypt were buried in the Valley of the kings. And near it lived generations of craftsmen and workers who built the great city of the dead.
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on 13 July 2004, the world had spread the news at a flea market in Lara, near the Australian Melbourne, suddenly out of nowhere surfaced, as experts say, considered to be lost archive of the legendary Liverpool four the Beatles - a suitcase with a pile of photos, programs, concerts and a tape recorder with unknown records. The happy owner of the finds was a Briton Fraser Klochan who paid for her utter nonsense - some 50 Australian dollars. Sensation? Let's try to understand...
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"Psychoanalysis, as he liked to emphasize Freud himself, was his creation. And the greatest achievements, and shortcomings of this theory to bear the stamp of personality of its founder. For this reason the origins of psychoanalysis should be sought in the person of Freud," wrote American psychologist and sociologist Erich Fromm. In fact, what it was for a scientist changed the very foundations of the people's ideas about themselves, boldly declaring that the world is ruled low instincts, that every boy dreams of sex with his mother, and the girl to jump into bed to the father?
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History Gomelskogo the pied Piper, as well as stories of Tristan and Isolde, Prince hamlet or doctor Faustus, destined seems to remain for centuries, although it is neither love nor detective intrigue, and greedy citizens and overly vengeful musician, it seems, should not make more people slightest sympathy. Yet the shadow of the white cloak of Piper no-no and will be shown on the pages of some modern books. Because DIN-Lenskoe history is a mystery. And this secret today we will try to solve.
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The legend of the Holy Grail, very popular in the middle Ages, suddenly again attracted attention: not only Europe but also in America. The Holy Grail is probably the most mysterious thing in the world. About it is spoken of as the bowl, in which Joseph of Arimathea collected blood of Christ after his crucifixion, in consequence of which it acquired magical properties, becoming a source of wealth and power. At the same time hero of the medieval Romanov Percival (and Wagner's Opera of the same name) was a representative of the family Grail... In the Middle ages, the Holy Grail is usually associated with king Arthur. But now there is information that he has a direct relation to the masonry and Zion community - no less mysterious than the Grail.
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Even in our times the cemetery can not complain about the lack of the public, but in the Stone age, they were the only places large gatherings. There was all cultural, social and political life of ancient farmers. This was learnt by British archaeologists in the study of long - houses collective graves Neolithic.
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January 25, 2011 tens of thousands of protesters flooded the Cairo Tahrir square to demand the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak. The streets of the Egyptian cities filled with tear gas and rocks flew.
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315 years ago began the Great Embassy of Peter I. It was after this voyage was born the famous phrase: "Peter I opened a window to Europe".
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