Eruptions of Mount Etna from 475 BC to the activity of early 2026

Not the gates of Hades, but a portal of lava on the stratovolcano Etna, Sicily.

Photo by Franz Lazi, 1968

Among Etna's more recent notable eruptions, the one of 2 June 2025 was a palpable affair, as was the one before it, in the spring and summer of 1669, when lava flows went on for several months and reached the walls of the city of Catania. The first historically reliable eruption of Etna took place in 475 BC. But at the beginning of 2026 the old lady was active once again. Lesser eruptions of Etna are recorded very often, practically every year

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The Betrothal Feast in Vlas Doroshevich's Satirical Novel “Mu-Xiang”

They were served stewed spoiled eggs, roast suckling pig, seaweed, ginger preserve, goose livers, shark-fin soup with crab roe, toasted almonds, soup with pigeon eggs, ham and chicken, boiled young bamboo, green peas, boiled chicken with bamboo shoots, bird's-nest soup with eggs and ham, fried frogs

Madonna with Cherubim in Milan's Brera: from Bellini to Mantegna

"Madonna with Cherubim" was long considered the work of Giovanni Bellini, until in 1885, during restoration, features characteristic of his chief rival, and incidentally his relative, Andrea Mantegna, came to light. What misled viewers was a softness uncharacteristic of Mantegna. Despite the established title, the Madonna and Child

Pushkin Museum refused the Ludwig collection over the branch name

The silliest thing about this renaming is its poor timing. For when the Pushkin Museum was offered, as a gift, the greatest collection of contemporary art of the second half of the twentieth century, the collection of Peter Ludwig, the very reason for the refusal was the condition that the

Eruptions of Mount Etna from 475 BC to the activity of early 2026

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The Betrothal Feast in Vlas Doroshevich's Satirical Novel “Mu-Xiang”

Madonna with Cherubim in Milan's Brera: from Bellini to Mantegna

Pushkin Museum refused the Ludwig collection over the branch name

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