Day: April 5, 2025

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Александр Варнек. Портрет действительного тайного советника президента Академии художеств графа А.С. Строганова. 1814



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Making the streets safer: Cap the speeds of dangerous drivers


A violent felon shouldn’t be allowed to own a gun. A Level 3 registered sex offender shouldn’t be able to work at a day care. And by the exact same logic, someone who’s proven chronically unwilling…

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The CDC Needs a Trump Makeover as the Health Agency Allows Deadly Fungus To Spread


The agency needs to prioritize health over political correctness, opt for transparency over secrecy, and be open to 21st-century technologies.

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Today in History: April 5, FDR establishes Civilian Conservation Corps


As part of his New Deal programs, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order establishing the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC).

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Bobby Kennedy’s very bad medicine: RFK wants to make America suffer


Quack Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a strange way to Make America Healthy Again by taking a blowtorch to the department, cutting some 20,000 full-time jobs across mu…

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Roadmap to an Imperfect Peace: Consensus Emerges on How the Ukraine War Will End


The negotiations will have a yin and yang until there is no solution other than a ceasefire leading to a Korean-peninsula-like hot peace.

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‘The Invisible Man’: Exiled Ex-President of Syria Finds a Gilded Life in Moscow Watched by Allies and Enemies


There are no photos, no recordings — just official statements that could’ve been written by the Russians.’

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Франц Пфорр. «Иоганн Фридрих Овербек». 1810 г. Холст, масло. 47×62 см. Старая Национальная галерея, Берлин.



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Сальвадор Дали. «Голова, подсказанная Микеланджело». 1982 г.



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Татьянин Юрий. «Пришелец соблазняет Фриду Кало». 2019. Холст, акрил, лак. 30×40 см.