Books · Observations · Education
A very common error in the government of prepositions turned up in a book title. It is usually met with in the formatting of time intervals, but ordinarily in humdrum circumstances: in notices of opening hours, in announcements and in regulations of every sort, drawn up in haste and without
NB! · Archaeology · Architecture · Art · Science
It turns out that the famous lions over the main gate of the Mycenaean citadel, dated to the mid-13th century BC, were in fact looking backwards, not at one another. It is also thought that the lions' heads, which have not survived, were made of a different material,
Archive · Art
Semyon Levenkov, 1950s
Archaeology · Observations · Mores · Ethnography
President of Finland Tarja Halonen in the historical Eura dress at the annual Independence Day reception in 2001. The dress is an exact reconstruction of the attire of a Viking Age woman, found in a Viking burial at Eura in western Finland. Just imagine loving your country and your people
London · Society · People
In 1777, a year after America declared its independence from Great Britain, the Anglo-Irish statesman Edmund Burke wrote to his friend and ally, the prominent opponent of the king Charles James Fox, something along these lines:. People oppressed by the law have no hope but to rely on power.
Archive · Saint Petersburg · Ethnography
Postcard. Saint Petersburg: Kyakhta Tea Merchants' Association “Jin-Long”, 1900s.
Cinema · Humour
"And who gave you leave to hang portraits of your floozies in here? Eh? Who put up this slattern?" "That is Mozart, sir." "The Barber of Siberia"
NB! · Cinema · Books · Pop Culture
Johnny Depp is to film The Master and Margarita. It is also known that Depp will play the lead in the first English-language screen adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's novel
Faith · Art · Museums · Paris
Saint Apollonia, Francisco de Zurbarán, 1636-40. Louvre collection. The painting can be seen in the Spanish painting gallery
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Art · Books · Moscow · Museums · Observations
My favourite monument to Leo Tolstoy stands in the courtyard of his museum on Prechistenka. It is the work of Sergey Merkurov, who, incidentally, took the death mask of Lev Nikolayevich. The monument, completed in 1913, could not be erected in Moscow: the Black Hundreds threatened to blow it up.
Museums · Heritage · Society
More than six hundred items have been stolen from a museum in Bristol. Among the missing objects are military memorabilia, jewellery, and figurines of ivory, bronze and silver from the museum's collection devoted to the British Empire and the Commonwealth. The theft took place on the night of