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Alexandr Radayev
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I watched an estate agent's presentation of a 19th-century mansion in Scotland
I watched an estate agent's presentation of a 19th-century mansion in Scotland. The Americanisation of everyday life as it is. A house of more than 1,500 square metres, set in 12 hectares of land with a cottage, outbuildings and a glasshouse, is on sale for £4
Faith · People · Rome
Before his week-long pilgrimage to Canada, Pope Francis prayed in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore before the especially venerated icon of the Mother of God, "Salus Populi Romani" ("Protectress of the Roman People"), in which the Virgin Mary is depict
Before his week-long pilgrimage to Canada, Pope Francis prayed in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore before the especially venerated icon of the Mother of God, "Salus Populi Romani" ("Protectress of the Roman People"), in which the Virgin Mary is depicted wearing a consular ring,
Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Humour
The statues in the Babylon Hall of the Pushkin Museum do not talk to you!
The statues:
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What People Most Want to Hear When They Learn I Am an Americanist
Archive · Books · Mores · Ethnography
Caesar, Strabo and Cassius Dio on polyandry and shared wives in the British Isles
"In Brittany many men sleep with a single wife, and many wives lust after a single man," reports a Russian chronicler. This is not the only mention of polygyny and polyandry in the British Isles. Already in Julius Caesar's "Commentaries on the Gallic War"
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Residential building of rounded shape with red facing and a domed roof
NB! · Architecture · Moscow · Humour
A Pumpkin House from Inman, South Carolina, Sends Intercontinental Greetings to a Moscow Egg House
NB! · Monarchies · Observations · Humour
A Happy Grandfather in a Viking Helmet: King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, Delighted as a Child at the Opening of the Viking-Themed Amusement Park Vikingaslav in 2017
A happy grandfather in a Viking helmet: King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, delighted as a child at the opening of the Viking-themed amusement park Vikingaslav in 2017. The Vikings left the historical stage long ago, yet they remain the core of the collective memory of a glorious past
Archaeology · Architecture · The East · Geography · Heritage
The Delikkemer Aqueduct, Which Supplied the Lycian City of Patara with Water
The Delikkemer Aqueduct, built some 2,000 years ago, is a pipe laid along the top of a stone wall up to 12 metres high. The pipe is formed within limestone blocks, each with a hole hollowed out through the middle. The aqueduct supplied the Lycian city of Patara with
NB! · Architecture · Rome · Humour
The Trevi Fountain Has Done Rather Well for Itself
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