Art · London · Museums · Ethnography

Wooden sphinx of the Haida people in the British Museum, attributed to Simeon Siltda

This wooden sphinx in the British Museum has nothing to do with Egypt. The sculpture is the work of a North American artist of the Haida, a small nation living on the islands of British Columbia. The sphinx was found in an abandoned Haida village, buried inside an empty house.

Monochrome image of angels hovering in the night sky above an amphitheatre arena where bodies lie and wild beasts roam.

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Gustave Doré's 1871 work on Christian martyrs in the arena

Christian Martyrs. Gustave Doré, 1871

Faith · The East · Observations · Society · Rome

The Pope on the culture of encounter, cooperation and religious art

Pope Francis receives a delegation of the Fo Guang Shan Humanistic Buddhism Association from Taiwan. It is curious to watch the Vatican persist in its attempts to take part in the international political agenda. The Pope, all the same, delivered a very measured speech on the importance of cooperation. "

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A Mountain of Crockery with a Pearl Earring

A mountain of crockery with a pearl earring. The artist is Emil Schwarzler

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In life, the cantankerous alarm clock from Beauty and the Beast is considerably larger than in the film

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How the Circus of Caligula, 1st Century AD, Became the Modern Vatican

Faith · Interviews · People

“I fear that we are tempted to build a human church, in keeping with the times and with our own notions”

Cardinal Robert Sarah

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List of Russian Subjects Who Perished in the Sinking of the Titanic Published

Old engraving of a Prussian eagle pecking a bearded man chained to a printing press, with figures lying at his feet.

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Caricature of the 1843 Closure of Karl Marx's Rheinische Zeitung in Cologne

The Prussian eagle pecks at the liver of Karl Marx, chained to a printing press like Prometheus to his rock. The caricature was timed to coincide with the closure in 1843 of the Cologne Rheinische Zeitung, edited by Marx

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May Your Morning Begin with the Beautiful Ancient Rus' of Vsevolod Ivanov

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Another Stroke of Genius on Avito

Another stroke of genius on Avito. Yeltsin plays billiards with the presidents of the Union republics as the balls, and Gorbachev, naturally, breaks the USSR

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Five Russian titles of a novel about an underwater voyage, published between 1870 and 1956

George Sand suggested the idea of the novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" to Jules Verne, proposing in a letter of 1865 that he write a book about a voyage across the ocean in a submarine. In Russian translation the novel appeared under various titles: Eighty Thousand

Alexandr Radayev