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Alexandr Radayev
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Botticelli's "Primavera" depicts nine figures from classical mythology, following one another across a flowering meadow in an orange and laurel grove
Botticelli's "Primavera" depicts nine figures from classical mythology, following one another across a flowering meadow in an orange and laurel grove. This very masterpiece of the Renaissance has had 138 species of plants precisely identified in it. The composition of the painting remains a riddle, but
Architecture · Geography · Heritage
The Roman Lighthouse of A Coruña in Spain, the Oldest Surviving, and Its Likeness to the Pharos of Alexandria
The oldest surviving lighthouse in the world, A Coruña in Spain, was built by the Romans as early as the 1st century AD. Since then the lighthouse has undergone some changes, having been raised in height and strengthened, but its architectural core has remained unchanged. It is believed that the
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In 1577 Sir Humphrey Gilbert presented Elizabeth I with a narwhal tusk adorned with gold, and said it was the horn of a sea unicorn
In 1577 Sir Humphrey Gilbert presented Elizabeth I with a narwhal tusk adorned with gold, and said it was the horn of a sea unicorn. In principle, one can hardly find fault.
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Charles Chesnutt, an octoroon under the American law of one drop of blood
The American writer Charles Chesnutt (1858-1932) was classed as an octoroon, by virtue of the peculiar "one-drop rule". Octoroon (or octaroon) is a racial term adopted in the United States for persons with one-eighth African blood, that is, 12%, as in the case of Alexander
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You're Hired!
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Christian Faith, bearing New Testament symbols (the crucifix, the keys of Heaven, the attributes of the Eucharist, the papal tiara, the four Evangelists and the Fountain of Life), sheds divine light upon Europe
Christian Faith, bearing New Testament symbols (the crucifix, the keys of Heaven, the attributes of the Eucharist, the papal tiara, the four Evangelists and the Fountain of Life), sheds divine light upon Europe. Faith of the Old Testament, in a horned headdress, with the tablets of the commandments and a
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And "Former Queen" Sounds Rather Insulting
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Madame de Dozha refuses to return a painting on Interpol lists unless paid its value
Norfolk resident Barbara de Dozsa refuses to return Antonio Solario's "Madonna and Child", stolen in 1973 from the Civic Museum of Belluno (Italy), reports Artguide. Some time ago Mrs de Dozsa's husband acquired the work without knowing its provenance. The painting, which appeared on
Faith · Art · Books
The Book of Job on the friends' seven days of silence and Job's curse on the day of his birth
And when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came every one from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to
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It is curious that the very first document I opened at random from the newly published Kennedy archive should speak of a Russian ship
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The US National Archives has published documents on the assassination of John F. Kennedy
The US National Archives has published documents on the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Something in the order of eighty thousand files, I reckon a couple of days should be enough to get through them. Who is in? In addition, documents relating to the assassination of the American president'