Faith · People
On 26 June the Greek Orthodox Church honours the memory of the hermit Saint David of Thessalonica. Of his ninety years, the venerable saint spent seventy in fasting, prayer and asceticism in a hut beneath an almond tree. Even in his lifetime he was recognised as a wonder-worker: he
Nature · Humour
A West Virginia Woman Photographs the Moment Lightning Strikes a Tree. If one believes that plants feel pain, the neighbours on the lawn will have heard a very long and piercing "aaaaaow"
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The Rialto Market, Venice, 1960. Photo by Giulio Corinaldi
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The Roman legions have entered York. I can picture the elderly Ford Fiestas, Renault Clios and knackered Volkswagen Golfs somewhere on the backstreets of Fulford, plastered with stickers reading “England Is Rome”, “On to Londinium” and, of course, “We Can Do It Again!”
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Telemachus recognises Odysseus in the presence of Athena. Lionel Royer, Musée de Tessé
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NB! · Archive · Moscow · Observations
Children sunbathing near Arbatskaya metro station in the 1960s. Consider how much more human and simple life in Moscow was sixty years ago. Today the city is deprived of such ordinary joys, yet it is drowning in formal conveniences
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The Triumphal Entry of Alexander Nevsky into the City of Pskov after His Victory over the Germans. Grigory Ugryumov, late eighteenth century
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