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  2. Golden calf - Wikipedia

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    The Adoration of the Golden Calf – picture from the Hortus deliciarum of Herrad of Landsberg (12th century). According to the Torah and the Quran, the golden calf (Hebrew: עֵגֶל הַזָּהָב, romanized: ʿēḡel hazzāhāḇ) was a cult image made by the Israelites when Moses went up to Mount Sinai.

  3. The Little Golden Calf - Wikipedia

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    The Little Golden Calf (Russian: Золотой телёнок, Zolotoy telyonok) is a satirical picaresque novel by Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov, published in 1931. Its main character, Ostap Bender, also appears in a previous novel by the authors called The Twelve Chairs. The title alludes to the "golden calf" of the Bible.

  4. The Twelve Chairs - Wikipedia

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    You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Russian Wikipedia article at [[:ru:Двенадцать стульев]]; see its history for ...

  5. Ostap Bender - Wikipedia

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    Ostap Bender as portrayed by Andrei Mironov, 1976. Ostap Bender (Russian: Остап Бендер) is a fictional con man and the central antiheroic protagonist in the novels The Twelve Chairs (1928) and The Little Golden Calf (1931) written by Soviet authors Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov.

  6. Ilya Ilf - Wikipedia

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    The Little Golden Calf One-storied America Ilya Arnoldovich Ilf [ 1 ] (born Iehiel-Leyb Aryevich Faynzilberg ; Russian : Иехи́ел-Лейб Арьевич Фа́йнзильберг ; [ 2 ] 15 October [ O.S. 3 October] 1897 – 13 April 1937) was a Soviet journalist and writer of Jewish origin who usually worked in collaboration with ...

  7. Johann Friedrich Schweitzer - Wikipedia

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    He is known for his books Ichts aus Nichts, für alle Begierigen der Natur published in 1655, Vitulus Aureus (The Golden Calf), published in 1667 under the pseudonym Joakim Philander, and Miraculo transmutandi Metallica, Antwerp, 1667.

  8. Faust (opera) - Wikipedia

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    Valentin, leaving for war with his friend Wagner, entrusts the care of his sister Marguerite to his youthful friend Siebel ("O sainte médaille ... Avant de quitter ces lieux"). Méphistophélès appears, provides the crowd with wine, and sings a rousing, irreverent song about the golden calf ("Le veau d'or"). Méphistophélès predicts Wagner ...

  9. Yevgeny Petrov (writer) - Wikipedia

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    The Little Golden Calf One-storied America Yevgeny Petrovich Petrov , also spelled Evgeny or Yevgeni , ( Евгений Петрович Петров , born Katayev ( Катаев ); December 13 [ O.S. November 30] 1902 in Odessa – July 2, 1942) [ 1 ] was a popular Soviet author in the 1920s and 1930s.