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By Dmitry Levitzky (1735-1822), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
A Russian princess admitted defeat with a most gracious compliment.
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By Nikolai Yaroshenko (1846-1898), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
Edith Nesbit brings down the curtain on ‘The Railway Children’.
By Donaldson Brothers, Five Points, NY, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
Governments must not use ‘the good of society’ as an excuse to run our lives.
By Nikolai Sverchkov (1817–1898), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
In Russia, when a blind beggar is laid to rest even the Emperor knows for whom the bell tolls.
Anonymous, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
Guiseppi Garibaldi treasured the memory of a visit to Tyneside.
By Henri-Antoine Boissonnas (1833-89), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
Fyodor Dostoevsky listened with growing bewilderment to the celebrity peace activists gathered in Geneva.