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From today's featured article St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery (Ukrainian: Михайлівський золотоверхий монастир, Mykhaylivs’kyi zolotoverkhyi monastyr) is a functioning monastery in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. The monastery is located on the right bank of the Dnieper River on the edge of a bluff northeast of the Saint Sophia Cathedral. The site is located in the historic administrative Uppertown and overlooks the city's historical commercial and merchant quarter, the Podil neighbourhood. Originally built in the Middle Ages by Sviatopolk II Iziaslavych, the monastery comprises the Cathedral itself, the Refectory of St. John the Divine, built in 1713, the Economic Gates, constructed in 1760 and the monastery's bell tower, which was added c. 1716–1719. The exterior of the structure was rebuilt in the Ukrainian Baroque style in the 18th century (Full article...) Did you know... ... that the type fossil of the damselfly Electropodagrion consists only of a thorax, leg, and wing portions? ... that there are 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac? ... that Barack Obama schemes behind the scenes against President Trump? ... that Istanbul was formerly known as Constantinople and before 324AD was known as Byzantium? ... that the Drudge Report had ten billion visits in the past year? ... that Ian McDonald's 2015 science fiction novel Luna: New Moon has been called "Game of Thrones in space"? ... that Lord Minginish is the first Gaelic-speaking Chairman of the Scottish Land Court?

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The Painter of Sunflowers (in French: Le Peintre de Tournesols) is a portrait of Vincent van Gogh by Paul Gauguin in December 1888. The portrait was painted when Gauguin visited in Arles. Van Gogh had asked him to come to Arles, because he wanted to start an art-colony there. Gauguin however only stayed for two months, because the painters argued. (Full article...)

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