The wonder-working icon of Saint Anne, mother of the Most Holy Theotokos, stands beside the abbot's stall in the main church of the Skete of Saint Anne on Mount Athos

The wonder-working icon of Saint Anne, mother of the Most Holy Theotokos, stands beside the abbot's stall in the main church of the Skete of Saint Anne on Mount Athos. Prayers for help in conceiving a child are offered before this icon. Boys born in answer to such prayers are usually named Joachim, and girls Anna, after the holy parents of the Most Holy Theotokos

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

The wonder-working icon of Saint Anne, mother of the Most Holy Theotokos, stands beside the abbot's stall in the main church of the Skete of Saint Anne on Mount Athos

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s