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Alexandr Radayev
Archaeology · In the Press · The East · Science
In 1913 a number of English-language newspapers carried an article claiming that several temple-like chambers had been discovered inside the Great Sphinx
In 1913 a number of English-language newspapers carried an article claiming that several temple-like chambers had been discovered inside the Great Sphinx. The text reported that there was a fairly large room both inside the head and inside the body, and that in one of these chambers small
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Parrot, Kees van Dongen, 1910
NB! · Observations
Did You Recognise Yourself?
NB! · Art · Moscow · Museums
At the Vladey gallery at 14 Neglinnaya Street, an exhibition by Vlad Kulkov / Leonid Tskhe, "The Risk-Taker and the Magus", has opened
Archive · Art · Mores · Paris
Robert Doisneau’s “The Kiss” from the 1950 Life shoot to the court case and the auction
Robert Doisneau's famous photograph "The Kiss" was taken for Life magazine in 1950. Doisneau noticed a couple kissing in a Parisian café and proposed that they take part in a shoot, paying them a handsome 500 francs, which in our day is almost 1,500 euros.
Books · Monarchies · Mores
The 1398 Ball of the Burning Men in Froissart's Account and Edgar Allan Poe's Story
Jean Froissart describes the horrors of the “Bal des Ardents” of 1398, when a spark set alight costumes and masks made of linen soaked in pitch. Charles VI, dressed as a wild man, managed to save himself by hiding beneath the skirts of the Duchess de Berry; one or two
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Theatre audience applauding, a photograph by Robert Doisneau, 1950s
At the theatre, 1950s. Robert Doisneau
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The day before his death, on 11 October 1963, the 74-year-old Jean Cocteau compared his life to the progress of a roller-coaster car and said that he still wanted the rails to climb once more
Books · Mores · Humour
When Ladies Do Not Invite Gentlemen
Illustration from the book "The Art of Bayonet Fencing, or Instruction in the Use of the Infantry Rifle as an Offensive and Defensive Weapon", 1832
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The ship Glory of Russia in Beaver Bay, Unalaska Island, drawing of 1790
Geography · Maps · Science · Society
Cancellation of Mulovsky's 1787 expedition and transfer of its tasks to the Billings and Sarychev expedition
The "Glory of Russia" Medal Instituted by Catherine the Great Is Linked to the First Russian Circumnavigation. The expedition was conceived "on the occasion of the attempt by English trading entrepreneurs upon the conduct of trade and the hunting of beasts in the Eastern Sea" and