2012-12-07 Pipa, Brazil / Too good to be True / Zu schön um wahr zu Sein / Bom demais para ser Verdade / Demasiado bueno para ser Verdad

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So good, that it is hard to believe. Seeming very good, but not real. So exiting, almost unbelievable. These terms express the sceptical view that something so fine must have something wrong with it. You can not believe that something is as good as it seems. If something seems too good to be true, it usually is. You’re ...

1916-12-07 St. Petersburg, Russia / Brothers will kill Brothers / Brüder werden Brüder Töten / Irmãos matarão Irmãos / Hermanos mataran Hermanos

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Rasputin had very little schooling and was unable to read or write. At age 16 he was arrested for theft, and the citizens of Pokrovskoe appealed to the authorities to excommunicate and exile him. Rasputin was sentenced to three months in prison, which was later commuted to serving his term at Verkhoturye Monastery in Siberia. Rasputin settled ...