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Alexandr Radayev
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Diane Arbus photographed a sword swallower in Maryland, USA, in 1970
A sword swallower. Maryland, USA, 1970 Photograph by Diane Arbus
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Someone used a thirteenth-century Bible as a copybook
Faith · Books
He who is lonely in sorrow
more often dreams of the help of the Lord, when on a distant path, on a sea unknown to him, with longing in his heart, he measures with his strokes the icy sea, a lonely exile, and knows: fate is all-powerful. Literal translation from the Old English elegy "
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Camp on the ice: a tent, a hut and a wind turbine, a man with a dog
Geography · Science · People · Nature
From June 1937 to February 1938, four Soviet researchers took part in the first expedition in history to the drifting station "North Pole-1"
The station was headed by the geophysicist Ivan Papanin; his team consisted of the meteorologist and geophysicist Yevgeny Fedorov, the radio operator Ernst Krenkel and the hydrobiologist Pyotr Shirshov. The organisation of the whole enterprise was directed by Otto Schmidt, head of the Soviet Arctic Expedition. The members of the
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The Meteorologist-Geophysicist Yevgeny Fyodorov Builds a Snow Pavilion for Magnetic Measurements on a Drifting Ice Floe in the Arctic
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Detail of a history painting: an armored warrior leads away a woman amid children
Art · Moscow · Museums · Heritage
Count Uvarov commissioned the canvases for the opening of the museum's first halls in 1881
The Historical Museum Completes Restoration of Henryk Siemiradzki's Monumental Canvases "The Funeral Feast of Sviatoslav's Warriors after the Battle of Dorostolon" and "The Funeral of a Rus in Bulgar" The paintings were commissioned by the museum's founder, Count Uvarov, in
Art · Books · Mores
The Novice
The Novice. Ivan Bogdanov, 1893 A drunken cobbler lectures a boy apprentice. The viewer can only guess at the horrors that attended the lives of the craftsmen's helpers whom parents handed over to various masters in search of a better life. The artist, however, knew of this at
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Even amid sorrows, give your soul a daily joy, for after death there is no happiness, not even in wealth
Aeschylus, The Persians Illustration: The Battle of Salamis by Wilhelm von Kaulbach, 1868
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Death of Aeschylus in Syracuse from a tortoise dropped by an eagle
Aeschylus died on a visit to Syracuse by accident: an eagle dropped a large tortoise on his head. Eagles do this to break the shell on rocks, but this time, in place of a rock, there turned out to be the bald head of the great dramatist