Architecture · Faith · Heritage

Church of the Merciful Saviour in Spass and Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Korino

Two church ensembles in the Yaroslavl Region granted official heritage status and entered in the unified state register. The first is the Church of the Saviour the All-Merciful in the village of Spass on the left bank of the Volga, built at the very beginning of the 19th century.

Architecture · Faith · Moscow

In 1635-1636, a domestic church dedicated to the Saviour Not Made by Hands was built on the men's side of the palace

In 1635-1636, a domestic church dedicated to the Saviour Not Made by Hands was built on the men's side of the palace. It later came to be called the Upper Saviour Cathedral (Verkhospassky Sobor). In 1682 three palace churches, those of the Resurrection "Slovushchy", of

Architecture · Observations · Society · Rome

Rome introduces a 2 euro charge for tourists to approach the Trevi Fountain

From Monday, a close-up view of Rome's iconic Trevi Fountain will cost money. The price for tourists and non-residents of Rome is 2 euros. The system will operate daily from 09:00 to 22:00, except on Mondays and Fridays, when public access will open at

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Should any boyar, okolnichy, Duma man, clerk (dyak), or other judge, whether for bribes, for friendship, or for enmity, convict the innocent plaintiff or defendant and acquit the guilty, and the matter be proven true, then from such judges the plaintiff's

Should any boyar, okolnichy, Duma man, clerk (dyak), or other judge, whether for bribes, for friendship, or for enmity, convict the innocent plaintiff or defendant and acquit the guilty, and the matter be proven true, then from such judges the plaintiff's claim shall be recovered threefold and given

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Joan Crawford in My Way of Life on mistakes, bitterness and generosity

Joan Crawford on her way to the launch of her book in Boston, November 1971. I am the sum of everything that has ever happened to me, every mistake I have made and every tear I have shed, though I have tried to keep them few, and I have never

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Alex Chinneck and His "Slipping" House

Architecture · Art · People

Alex Chinneck creates the illusion of a sliding brick house facade in Margate

The Face Has Slipped. An installation by the British artist and sculptor Alex Chinneck in the town of Margate, in the county of Kent, Great Britain. The project is a visual illusion in which the façade of a brick house appears to be "sliding" downwards and partly detaching

Three-dimensional image of a red piece of amber with the white silhouette of an ant inside, near the top edge.

Heritage · Science · Palaeontology · Nature

Ant about 40 million years old found in amber from Goethe's collection

A fossilised ant has been found in amber from the collection of the poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Its age is approximately 40 million years. The ant proved to be a representative of the extinct species Ctenobethylus goepperti. A black fly and a fungus gnat were also found in the

Archive · Faith · Moscow · Observations · Heritage

Bolshevik firing position in the bell tower of a church on Ostozhenka in 1917

A barricade set up in the autumn of 1917 across Ostozhenka, by the Church of the Resurrection of the Word. In the bell tower of the church is a Bolshevik firing point. This is dreadful not only as a fact of civil war but as a symbol. A bell tower,

Books · Rome · Humour

Caesar replied with amusement, on seeing the decrepit aspect of one weary and broken soldier of his guard, who had come to ask for leave in order to die: "So you suppose that you are still alive?"

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