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Alexandr Radayev
NB! · Archaeology · The East · Art · Museums
Neolithic Marble Figurine from Turkey, 5500 – 8000 BC
Faith · Books · Monarchies · Observations
An old printed text on Elizabeth, who healed Russia with a word
Elizabeth, it is said, healed the ailing fatherland with a single word filled with divine power, saying: Arise and walk, arise and walk, Russia. Shake off thy doubts and fears, and, filled with joy and hope, adorn thyself, rejoice, be exalted. What is there to add? Amen
The East · Books · Science · Education · People
Nikolay Trubetskoy and the concept of the language union in his 1923 article
Those who enjoy studying languages will surely have come across the term Sprachbund, especially if they have ever set about the Balkan tongues. Sprachbund, or linguistic union, describes similarities that arise not from the genetic kinship of languages but from close linguistic and cultural contact. Different languages with no shared
NB! · Art · Museums · Paris
The Wild Boar
The Wild Boar. By the Florentine sculptor of the seventeenth century Giovanni Battista Foggini. Louvre
Observations · Science · Humour
The American mathematician Claude Shannon, who coined the term "bit", founded information theory and worked as a cryptanalyst and engineer, once said: "I visualise a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans"
How soon do you think it will be?
NB! · Art · Nature
The Park, Gustav Klimt, 1910
NB! · London · Monarchies · Observations
Prince Harry to Fly to Britain to See His Father After News of King Charles's Cancer Diagnosis
Prince Harry is to fly to Britain to see his father after the news that King Charles has been diagnosed with cancer. One wonders whether Harry will arrive home with his altogether charming wife, or alone after all.
Books · Monarchies · People · Saint Petersburg
Elizaveta Petrovna, as is well known, though a daughter of Peter the Great, was born out of wedlock, like her elder sisters Ekaterina Petrovna and Anna Petrovna: all of them were born to Catherine before the wedding in 1712 and were considered "legitimate
Elizaveta Petrovna, as is well known, though a daughter of Peter the Great, was born out of wedlock, like her elder sisters Ekaterina Petrovna and Anna Petrovna: all of them were born to Catherine before the wedding in 1712 and were considered "legitimated by marriage". Elizaveta had no
NB! · Art · Moscow · Museums · Science
"Rouen Cathedral at Noon (The Portal and the Tour d'Albane)" and "Rouen Cathedral in the Evening"
"Rouen Cathedral at Noon (The Portal and the Tour d'Albane)" and "Rouen Cathedral in the Evening". The Pushkin Museum, exhibition "'Rouen Cathedrals'. A Study of Claude Monet's Paintings from the Collection of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts&
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Henri Matisse's Palette from the Pushkin Museum on Display in an Exhibition
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