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Alexandr Radayev
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The Domes of the Dormition Cathedral
Faith · People
Pope Leo XIV on faith that must be rediscovered and the danger of habit
Who is the Lord for me? Do I truly know Him? What does His Gospel demand of me today? What steps must I take? Pope Leo XIV turned to the Gospel reading in which Christ asks His disciples who they say that He is. The question is put to people
NB! · Archive · Art · Saint Petersburg
Karl Bulla photographed a scene from a play on Russian history in Saint Petersburg in the 1910s
A scene from a play on a theme from Russian history. The photograph was taken by Karl Bulla in Saint Petersburg in the 1910s
Observations · Mores · Humour
How right he is!
I no longer know what words to use to explain to my acquaintances, and mostly to people I barely know, that I would rather not embrace and kiss in place of an ordinary greeting; each time it is an awkward situation
NB! · Faith · Art · Museums
“The Descent into Hell”, a medieval stone sculpture from the parish church of Saint-Symphorien, at an exhibition in the Fenaille Museum in Rodez, France
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Statute on Zemstvo Institutions, with All Relevant Enactments and with Judicial and Governmental Clarifications
Statute on Zemstvo Institutions, with All Relevant Enactments and with Judicial and Governmental Clarifications. Author: Mysh
NB! · Archive · Art · People
Alexander Rodchenko with a Pair of Compasses, 1948
NB! · Archive · Faith · Ethnography
Mordvin Pilgrim Women at the Ponetayevka Convent for Women in 1904
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Aerial view of an excavation with stone walls and a gridded area
Archaeology · Architecture · The East · Science
At Göbekli Tepe, the world's oldest megalithic temple complex, more than 11,500 years old, rectangular buildings have been found that may have served as dwellings
The site is being surveyed by means of geomagnetic mapping, ground-penetrating radar and lidar scanning. The head of the excavation reports that the new rectangular structures are concentrated chiefly in the eastern and southern parts of the hill and lie next to the already known circular monumental buildings with
Archaeology · The East · Science
Midianite pottery as a trademark, distributed from an oasis to the Levant and Arabia
An analysis of several dozen Bronze Age vessels from the Qurayyah oasis in north-western Arabia may have identified the first branded goods in human history. The two-colour painted pottery of this region has long been known to specialists as "Midianite", and its origin remained a matter