Monarchies · Mores · People
If you do not know how to begin your day, recall that the Emperor of All Russia ruled the largest state in the world and still kept himself in splendid physical shape
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The El Silar Complex in Bolivia Looks Just as the Splendid Achievements of Past Civilisations Do in the Perspective of Our Own Day. Have you ever driven past a ruined Sovkhoz or an abandoned factory? Many of the everyday phenomena of the developed past, seen through the sad prism of
Coming Up · Art · Museums · Observations
Works by Jean-Michel Othoniel in Avignon. Yes, this is the same contemporary artist whose chandelier of multicoloured glass beads hangs in the Petit Palais in Paris; his style is instantly recognisable. At present, works by Othoniel are on show in all the museums and historic sights of Avignon. I
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Russian archaeology marks an event of world significance: a Russian monument, the cave paintings of Shulgan-Tash on the River Belaya in Bashkortostan, has been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. I congratulate everyone who has had a hand in the work at the site and in its study,
Books · Society · Humour
Counterfeiting in the antiquarian book market reaches a new level: outright forgeries presented as collectors' rarities, "manufactured" (!) in a single copy. At the end of the advertisement the entrepreneur adds: We have hundreds of digitised autographs of celebrities of the 19th to 21st centuries, and will produce
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Robespierre, head of the Jacobins, known as the Incorruptible and effectively at the helm of the government of revolutionary France, is mentioned in The Sopranos, in which the North Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano tries to solve his problems with the help of a psychotherapist. Good morning, and a good
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Remember how, in 2015, the head of Russian Railways proposed building a super-highway from London to New York across the whole of Eurasia and North America, to include a railway, a motorway and oil pipelines? The project was called the Trans-Eurasian Belt Development, but the prospect of its
Museums · Heritage · Society · Paris
The French government has presented a bill intended to simplify the restitution to their countries of origin of works of art removed in the colonial era, reports Artguide. If the law is adopted, the process of returning objects from France's national collections that originate from states which lost