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No, this is not a device for readjusting to normal locomotion after emerging from a three-month sofa quarantine. All the more so as we have no such emergence to look forward to just yet. This is an advertisement for an apparatus of 1882 devised by Lewis Sayre. The American
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In May 1824 one of the greatest crimes in the history of English literature was committed in London. Barely a month after Byron's death, his memoirs were destroyed. And this was done in the presence of the poet's close friends and his executor. Memoirs are usually
Books · People
..Laughter, strictly speaking, is what saved me. Having passed through every stage of hatred and despair, I reached that height from which the ridiculous is visible as on the palm of one's hand. Having burst out laughing, I was cured, like that anecdotal fellow whose "abscess burst
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Architecture · Geography · Cinema · Museums
Orava Castle is a medieval fortress in Slovakia, perched on a 112-metre rock above the little River Orava. It was here that the 1922 film "Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror" was shot. True, in the plot the castle stands in Romania. In 2015 the castle, which had
NB! · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Humour
Meanwhile, on the First Channel: a sumptuous concert for the 180th anniversary of the Pushkin Museum. They are showing an excerpt from Kirill Serebrennikov's ballet "Nureyev". I too should like Renata Litvinova at my birthday (And preferably without Shvydkoy
Architecture · Art · Paris
In 2021 Christo Planned to Wrap the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. https://theparnassian.com/stalo-izvestno-chto-grandioznyi-proekt-khudozhnika-khristo-iavasheva-po-upakovke-triumfalnoi-arki-v-parizhe-perenositsia-s-oseni-etogo-goda-na-2021/?single
Cinema · Science · People
Oksana Kiyanskaya, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities, specialist on the Decembrists and academic consultant to the film "The Union of Salvation", has confirmed that the Chevalier Guard friends will return to the ranks. The team is working on the series
Architecture · Moscow
Flat-fronted houses in Moscow owe their existence to the way building plots were cut and the price of land. With an irregularly shaped plot, the landowner faced a choice: lose floor area or find an ingenious solution by means of a cunning layout. The houses on Taganskaya Street (1/
Architecture · London · Observations
The celebrated "flat house" in South Kensington, built in the late nineteenth century by William Douglas on a tiny wedge-shaped scrap of land, is in fact triangular in plan, with its narrowest part just 180 cm wide and its broadest 10 metres. Originally the house contained seven
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NB! · Architecture · Faith · Heritage · Rome
Another ancient door of Rome, more than 1,500 years old. The wooden doors of the Basilica of Santa Sabina on the Aventine have preserved 18 of their original carved panels; the only thing that has changed is the doorway in which they are set.