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Alexandr Radayev
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Garage Museum made a video on how endowments, or museum target funds, work
Garage has made an excellent video on how endowments, that is, a museum's designated funds, work, with the help of Garage the cat, pumpkins, and examples from ancient Greece, modern America and Sweden. It at once made me want to eat a Garage doughnut, otherwise known as a
Books · Nature · Ethnography
The Warlike Cry of Native Americans and Its Effect on Bison and Bears
John Tanner, in his narrative "Thirty Years Among the Indians", relates a curious detail which may undoubtedly bear witness to the hunting role of cries in remote antiquity:. at the piercing war whoop of the Indians a bison might fall into a swoon, and a bear might flee
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First of all, it is stylish
Architecture · Moscow · Science · People
99 years ago today, the first radio signal was transmitted from Engineer Shukhov's tower
99 years ago today, the first radio signal was transmitted from Engineer Shukhov's tower. The first broadcast of the Comintern Television Tower was a concert of Russian music featuring Nadezhda Obukhova and Boris Evlakhov. As you pass this tower on Shabolovka, know that its engineering solution, devised and
Art · Books · Paris · People
Surgeon Samuel de Pozzi in the 1881 portrait by John Singer Sargent
The French surgeon Samuel-Jean de Pozzi (1846-1918) is sometimes called one of the handsomest men of his day. In his university years he even earned the nickname Siren. Pozzi's life was a most entertaining one, and it is no accident that Julian Barnes devoted his latest
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Ceramics by Apollinaria Brosh: her exhibition opened yesterday at the Triumph Gallery
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"You're looking well." "Thank you, you too."
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Am I mistaken, or does Ryazan on this map of 1556 really enjoy a more attractive situation than Moscow?
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The manuscript of an article by Yury Valentinovich Knorozov, co-authored by the cat Asya
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Prince Philip returns to Windsor Castle after 28 nights in hospital, the longest stay of his life
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Readers are asked to identify a Russian ruler from an excerpt of an old book
Guess who is being described. Several names come to mind at once, do they not?