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Alexandr Radayev
NB! · Archive · Moscow · Museums · Science · People
Alexander Kohts, the biologist who founded the Darwin Museum, with colleagues in a teaching display in 1912
Cinema · Books · Observations · Humour
Short Stories and Novel Excerpts by Dostoevsky in Children's Anthologies
Dostoevsky: The Complete Collection of World Children's Literature. Spotted in Satoshi Kon's anime film "Tokyo Godfathers" When it comes to Dostoevsky and children, the following works are usually included in children's anthologies: the stories "Marey the Peasant", "The Boy
Books · Observations · Mores
Have you ever considered how, in European drama of, say, the nineteenth century, the existence of servants is largely ignored, servants who almost never make a decisive contribution to the development of the plot and, for the most part, do not act at all
Have you ever considered how, in European drama of, say, the nineteenth century, the existence of servants is largely ignored, servants who almost never make a decisive contribution to the development of the plot and, for the most part, do not act at all except by carrying out errands of
Geography · Maps · Observations · Humour
Area distortion on Mercator maps, with Greenland and Macron's head as examples
For all who have forgotten how the Mercator-type maps we usually use distort sizes, a reminder in the form of this photograph of Emmanuel Macron with his forehead in the Mercator projection. This is precisely how the inconstancy of scale on Mercator maps expresses itself, and precisely why the
NB! · Geography · Maps
The Real Size of Greenland Once the Map's Angular Distortion Is Removed
NB! · Observations
How Good It Is to Change One's Mind in Time
NB! · Art · Paris · People
Amedeo Modigliani moves from the Rue du Delta to the Rue Dancourt in 1913
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By the way, the collage with Aureliano Buendía and Amaranta came out by accident, but it turned out well
Art · Heritage · Society
German Cabinet Approves Reform of Restitution of Art Confiscated by the Nazis
The German Federal Cabinet has approved a plan to reform the restitution of artworks confiscated by the Nazis. Claimants who suffered from Nazi confiscations will now be able to apply directly to a specially created arbitration court, without requiring the consent to arbitration of the present owners of the works
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Wooden cross with Passion instruments: hammer, pincers, lantern, hand
Faith · Art
Mid-19th-century French wooden cross with the instruments of the Passion and their meanings
Cross with the instruments of the Passion, wood, French work of the mid-19th century. Among the instruments of the Passion are tools resembling those of torture, for instance pincers. They refer, however, to the drawing of the nails from Christ's hands. The sword is the one with