Books · People
And with every year I live more stubbornly, more fiercely
Anna Akhmatova on old age
Alexandr Radayev
Faith · Books · Science
Virgil's line that all is full of Jupiter and its meaning in alchemy
Tell me, Damoetas, whose flock is this? Is it Meliboeus'? "You are mistaken, Aegon: it is another's. But let it be, for often Thyrsis himself called out to me, and Aegon answered." <a lengthy, bantering conversation of the shepherds> With Jove, Muses, let
NB! · Architecture · Nature
Vertical Greening That Did Not Quite Take
NB! · Moscow · Observations · Paris · Humour
The Paris Métro Weeps Bitter Tears When It Thinks of the Moscow Metro
Archaeology · Observations · Nature
Homo erectus meeting the Flores man as a possible source of myths about hobbits and dragons
A pity about this good-natured fellow. In the first place, of course, he has a wife and children back in the den; and in the second, imagine yourself a fairly sturdy East Asian Homo erectus, in possession of a large brain, meeting a Flores or Luzon man, representatives of
Coming Up · Geography · Science
Replica of the locomotive Locomotion No. 1 to run again between Stockton and Darlington
In September, the World's First Public Railway Turns 200. On 27 September 1825, the locomotive Locomotion No. 1, designed by George Stephenson, drew a train along the Stockton and Darlington line in the north-east of England. The name Locomotion soon became a common noun: the word "
NB! · Architecture · Heritage · Society
According to the Russian Ministry of Culture, restoring all of Russia's cultural heritage sites would require around 1.7 TRILLION roubles
Faith · Society · Pop Culture · Rome
Deepfakes of Pope Leo XIV gather hundreds of thousands of views online
Vatican communications team says it has blocked hundreds of accounts posting AI-generated deepfakes since the start of Pope Leo XIV's pontificate. Some of the videos gather hundreds of thousands of views. Recently, for example, a fake 25-minute video of Pope Leo XIV commenting on the murder
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Treatment by Palace: The Chief Achievement of Soviet Medicine
Art · Society · Paris
Artnet analysts compare auction art sales across countries for the first half of 2025
Against a backdrop of a 16.5% decline in global sales, the smallest fall was recorded in the United States, where sales totalled 2.2 billion dollars, only 1% lower than in the same period of 2024. China comes second after the United States, where sales fell by 26% compared
NB! · Humour
Mikhalych, might you put your trousers on now, at least?
Architecture · Faith · The East · Art · Monarchies · People
The Beautiful Frescoes of Mikhail Nesterov in the Church of Alexander Nevsky at Abastumani in Georgia
The beautiful frescoes of Mikhail Nesterov in the Church of Alexander Nevsky at Abastumani in Georgia. This is a unique case: the entire interior of the church was painted in fresco by Nesterov himself, without the help of other artists: 56 compositions in 8 years. Nesterov's biography in