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Alexandr Radayev
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Or When Will Electric Scooters Be Banned in Moscow
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Social network of Leo Tolstoy and a 9,000-image photo archive launched on slovotolstogo.ru
The librarian of the Rumyantsev Museum and philosopher of the "Common Task" Nikolai Fyodorov held that humanity is obliged to resurrect literally all its dead ancestors. By what means? By technical effort, or rather by the collective effort of reason. Tolstoy knew him, read him, argued with him,
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Although the majority of Rio de Janeiro's population is Afro-Brazilian, fewer than 10% of the city's public monuments are dedicated to Black people
Know what solution they came up with? Since 2018, a group of artists has been painting murals across Rio with portraits of figures of Afro-Brazilian culture, each placed at a spot where the person in question once lived
Archaeology · Heritage · Science
Earliest traces of iron production in Angola found at the Ndalambiri rock shelter
The earliest iron production in the territory of Angola dates to the 5th to 8th centuries. Since 1974 the Ndalambiri rock shelter in Angola has been protected as a monument of national heritage, thanks to a painted frieze 60 metres long with almost 1,200 figures. A team led by
Coming Up · Art · Books · London
On 8 July Christie's will auction a rarest illuminated manuscript of the early fourteenth century, the Clermont-Tonnerre Grail, containing the first three texts of the Lancelot cycle
The estimate for the book is £1.5–2 million. The manuscript has spent 700 years in private hands, has never been publicly exhibited and has never been studied academically. It is now the earliest of the three privately owned copies of the cycle among the two hundred or so
Archaeology · Faith
Terracotta head in the guise of a Greek theatrical mask, 3rd-4th century BC, found in Black Lake Cave on Croatia's Pelješac peninsula
In Black Lake Cave on the Croatian peninsula of Pelješac, a terracotta head in the guise of a Greek theatrical mask, dating from the 3rd-4th century BC, has been found. The object is hollow, with a small hole for a cord: it hung on a wall. Vessels for wine
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Artists Jest
Artists Jest. Vasily Vereshchagin
Faith · Observations · Society · Rome
Leo XIV's encyclical on technological power, AI and transhumanism
Pope Leo XIV Issues His First Encyclical on Artificial Intelligence. Leo XIV invites the reader to choose: are people building the Tower of Babel, or restoring Jerusalem under Nehemiah? The main thing the Pope draws attention to in the encyclical is the passage of technological power from the public sector
Architecture · Observations · Heritage · Society · Paris
Exit of La Fourche Metro Station in Paris Restored to a Design Proposed by Local Residents
Look how beautifully the exit of La Fourche metro station has been restored in Paris! Officials very rarely, but still occasionally, manage to discharge their duties properly; in this case they needed the direct participation of the residents of the neighbourhood, who proposed precisely this design in place of the
Art · Museums
Allegory of Justice Trampling Deceit and Protecting a Woman with a Child and a Boy
Dutch Golden Age, c. 1651/53, Baroque artist Gabriël Metsu. Mauritshuis collection, The Hague. On long-term loan since 2019 to the Museum De Lakenhal in Leiden
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