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Digest of December posts on comet 3I/ATLAS, the Chagall exhibition and the Decembrists

Let us recall the good things! Returning to the interesting December publications on the channel 📌 On the unification of the Christian denominations 📌 Comet 3I/ATLAS: the finest interstellar light show in history 📌 Why we buy books 📌 Chronicles of the most famous flood in Moscow 📌 “Homo homini amicus, collega et frater

Faith · Books

He hath shewed strength with his arm: he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts

He hath shewed strength with his arm: he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree. He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away. that

Painting in a wooden frame on a dark red wall: three women in headscarves and winter clothes walk through a snowy forest carrying round loaves.

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Mikhail Savitsky's painting “Khleby”, created in 1968

Loaves. Mikhail Savitsky, 1968

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Daniel Radcliffe at the Bulgakov Museum

People · Humour

Such a Handsome Fellow

Photo by Paul Nicklen

Art · Museums · People

Grandma Moses began painting after the age of 70 and became a renowned American artist

Anna Mary Robertson Moses, better known as Grandma Moses, was a self-taught American artist and one of the leading representatives of primitivism. Anna began to paint when she was already over 70. Almost all her life she worked on farms in the states of New York and Virginia. A

Faith · Society · People · Rome

Pope Leo XIV: Pride Lies at the Root of Political Conflicts

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Art · New York · People · Saint Petersburg

Katya Kazakina of Artnet News wins the Front Page Award for the second time

Leningrad-born journalist Katya Kazakina has been awarded, for the second time, the prestigious Front Page Award for women in journalism, presented by the New York Newswomen's Club. Kazakina is a senior reporter at Artnet News, where she writes the popular weekly column The Art Detective, covering the

Geography · Observations · Society · Humour

Calculating possible payments to Greenlanders in a hypothetical US purchase of Greenland

On the one hand, it is remarkable to see the comic cliché of Americans believing they can buy anything on earth made flesh in the hypothetical purchase of Greenland. On the other, however sociopathic it may look, who can seriously suppose that people would be ready to sell their homeland

Geography · Observations · Society

The idea of buying Greenland and US territorial acquisitions from 1803 to 1867

Why does the plot of acquiring Greenland not look all that fantastical? One need only recall the history of the United States and its bargain purchases. In 1803 Louisiana was bought from France for roughly 15 million dollars. As a result, its territories went, wholly or in part, to form:

Antique engraved map “Grønlandia Antiqua” showing southern Greenland, sailing ships, dogs and human figures at the top.

Geography · Society

Greenland's population of 56,831 and the possible cost of the “project” in millions and billions of dollars

The USA, that is to say, in all likelihood, Donald Trump, is considering paying each resident of Greenland between $10,000 and $100,000 in return for backing secession from Denmark. The current population of Greenland is about 56,831. The cost of the "project" could therefore range

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Alexandr Radayev