Sorino's mobile dental surgery, he being the inventor of galvanic water, served as an ambulance in the 1870s

The travelling dentist's carriage at the National Automobile Museum in Compiègne, France, recalls the wagon in which the dentist Dr King Schultz travelled in Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained"

This mobile dental surgery belonged to Sorino, the inventor of galvanic water, that is, to all appearances, some adventurer of a physician, and was used as an ambulance in the 1870s

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

In the finale of the Strugatskys' Roadside Picnic, the Golden Ball is told: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to offend nobody, but the digest really does come free of charge. So, here is the main business of 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

Sorino's mobile dental surgery, he being the inventor of galvanic water, served as an ambulance in the 1870s

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

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