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Alexandr Radayev
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The myth of the cat that ate Thomas Hardy's heart, disputed by his biographers
The Cat That Took the Poet's Heart. One of the strangest stories of burial is attributed to the funeral of the English poet Thomas Hardy in 1928. Hardy lived to the age of 87. His body was cremated and the ashes interred in Poets' Corner in Westminster
Cinema · Books · Observations · People
Traits of Hermes-Mercury, Odin and a solar deity in the figure of Gandalf
Young Tolkien in the Costume of Hermes. And four hobbits in plain white togas beside him. It is interesting to look at Gandalf through the prism of the antique pantheon. In part he may be an embodiment of Hermes-Mercury. First, as a messenger of the gods; second, as a
Books · Society · Humour
Dmitry Minayev in 1881 on a homeland turned into one colossal Tashkent
Little by little, backward and back, We shall come to such a road That they will drive us all, like calves, Beyond the Ural ridge, little by little. We shall raise ourselves a monument, Higher and fairer than all monuments, And into one colossal Tashkent Our fatherland will be turned
NB! · Science · Society · Nature
The same climatic picture viewed across a gap of 30 years
The same climatic picture viewed across a gap of 30 years. What was accepted as the norm in 1995 was deemed, in 2024, a heat dangerous to health.
NB! · Faith · The East · Art
The Last Supper in the Chinese Iconographic Tradition
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Now It Is Definitely Demi-Sec
Archaeology · The East · Science
Scientists report the full sequencing of the genome of an Egyptian, a contemporary of the first pyramids, who lived 4,500 years ago
Scientists report the full sequencing of the genome of an Egyptian, a contemporary of the first pyramids, who lived 4,500 years ago. It has emerged that the genetic code of this man, aged about 60, whose bones were found in an amphora 300 km south of Cairo, is 80%
Archive · In the Press · Humour
Cartoon of a telephone conversation from the English magazine Punch, 1946
Well, darlings, apart from being bored to death with everything and everyone, how are you getting on? Punch magazine, England, 1946.
The East · Observations · Science
If you thought galleys were obsolete by the Age of Discovery, think again
If you thought galleys were obsolete by the Age of Discovery, think again. Here, by way of proof, is an image of an Ottoman galley in the Black Sea, late sixteenth century. And although by this time the strong maritime powers, the Ottoman Empire among them, could boast a great
Faith · People
Seek not friends among men, seek them in Heaven, among the saints: they will never abandon or betray you
Elder Nikolai Guryanov
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