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Alexandr Radayev
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In the Twenty-First Century, Helen of Troy Is Barely Recognisable!
In the twenty-first century, Helen of Troy is barely recognisable! In Christopher Nolan's Odyssey, the most beautiful woman in the world is played by the Kenyan actress Lupita Nyong'o
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Welcome to the Anthropocene
Archaeology · Geography · Observations · Science
Wooden tools about 430,000 years old found on a lake shore in Greece
Wooden tools found on the shore of a lake in Greece are believed by scholars to be the oldest known to date. Their age is estimated at roughly 430,000 years. I remain convinced, all the same, that half a million years is a rather modest figure beside the true
Coming Up · Architecture · Art
Intervals Festival of media art to be held in Nizhny Novgorod from 23 to 26 April
⚡️Where to begin planning your cultural leisure for the first half of the year? With the regular fixtures, of course. In April, from the 23rd to the 26th, Nizhny Novgorod will once again host the Intervals Festival, the international media art festival: the first of its kind in Russia, running
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Those who have experienced shyness know that the feeling grows in direct proportion to time and in inverse proportion to courage
Leo Tolstoy, Youth
NB! · Archaeology · Art · Museums
Pan, 2nd century, Archaeological Museum of Gortyn, near Heraklion
Coming Up · Architecture · Society
Olympic Cauldron Installed on Milan's Arch of Peace
In just a week the 2026 Winter Olympic Games will open in Milan and Cortina
Archive · Mores · People
Fyodor Shalyapin on a Finnish kicksled visiting Ilya Repin in Kuokkala, February 1914
Feodor Chaliapin visiting Ilya Repin in February 1914. Vyborg Governorate, the village of Kuokkala. Chaliapin stands on the runners of a Finnish kicksled, a conveyance extremely popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Sweden, Finland, Norway and the northern provinces of Russia. The design is as follows:
Faith · Books · Mores
A monk of the Iversky Monastery at Valdai drowned swimming the lake to his beloved
We Had Our Own Hero and Leander, Sung by Alexander Nikolayevich Radishchev in "Journey from Saint Petersburg to Moscow" The Valdai lake, upon which this town is built, will remain memorable in the tale of a monk who sacrificed his life for the sake of his mistress. A
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Young Leander, who lived on the Trojan shore of the Hellespont, fell in love with Hero, a priestess of Aphrodite from Sestos on the opposite bank
By night Hero would light a fire on her tower so that her beloved could swim the strait and meet her. But one night the wind put out the flame, and Leander drowned. Seeing Leander's body, Hero threw herself from her tower into the sea. Peter Paul Rubens,
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