Good morning: we are breakfasting with Mrs Rattle and her family, a doggie, a kitty, a squirrel and a parrot. I think one ought not to ask a woman who keeps such picturesque company where her husband is. And as for the fact that the squirrel in English images of the Early Modern period often symbolised prostitution or marital infidelity, we may leave that in brackets
A French museum has once again fallen victim to a brazen theft. On the night of Sunday, the cover of a book created by Salvador Dalí was stolen from a small private museum of modern art in the town of Issoire in central France. The cover weighs around 150 kilograms,
A server holds the phelonion of Father Photius Parks during the mass baptism of adults at the mission of Saint Anthony the Great of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese in Hendersonville, North Carolina. At present, about 24% of all Orthodox Christians in the United States are adults who have
Something tells me, on this day of splendid quotations from presidents, that in response to the call not to allow society to be divided into a thinking intellectual elite and people who will find themselves in the second or third rank in their level of intellectual development zealous executors, should
The Voronezh meme finds a new incarnation, this time in a country of the First World