Boiler house with a chimney in the form of a rising flame in Dornach, Switzerland, built in 1914 by the Austrian scientist, naturalist, philosopher, educator and artist Rudolf Steiner

Boiler house with a chimney in the form of a rising flame in Dornach, Switzerland, built in 1914 by the Austrian scientist, naturalist, philosopher, educator and artist Rudolf Steiner. One of the outstanding figures of his time, Steiner left his mark on many fields of knowledge and culture: as the creator of a school of a new type, known to this day as the Waldorf school, as the founder of biodynamic agriculture, and as a brilliant architect of modernism, whose legacy is among the most striking phenomena of that period

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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

Boiler house with a chimney in the form of a rising flame in Dornach, Switzerland, built in 1914 by the Austrian scientist, naturalist, philosopher, educator and artist Rudolf Steiner

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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