Antiques agent offers a carriage, but mother declines over taxes
An antiques agent has sent me a carriage; I ask Mother whether she might care to buy it. She replies: and pay tax on the carriage as well? Fair enough, but dispiriting(
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Bronze cover of Salvador Dalí's “Book of the Apocalypse” stolen from museum in Issoire
A French museum has once again fallen victim to a brazen theft. On the night of Sunday, the cover of a book created by Salvador Dalí was stolen from a small private museum of modern art in the town of Issoire in central France. The cover weighs around 150 kilograms,
Mass adult baptism at an Orthodox mission in Hendersonville, North Carolina
A server holds the phelonion of Father Photius Parks during the mass baptism of adults at the mission of Saint Anthony the Great of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese in Hendersonville, North Carolina. At present, about 24% of all Orthodox Christians in the United States are adults who have
A literacy circle for housewives in a 1931 photograph from the photo-essay "24 Hours in the Life of the Filippov Family"
Something tells me, on this day of splendid quotations from presidents, that in response to the call not to allow society to be divided into a thinking intellectual elite and people who will find themselves in the second or third rank in their level of intellectual development zealous executors, should
The Voronezh meme recurs in Trump's remarks on Iran and Los Angeles
The Voronezh meme finds a new incarnation, this time in a country of the First World