Catherine Deneuve on the set of Jean Aurel's film “Manon 70” in October 1967
Catherine Deneuve in October 1967, during the shooting of the film "Manon 70" directed by Jean Aurel
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The Venetian Church of Santo Stefano with an Apse Built over a Canal in the 15th Century
The Rio del Santissimo di Santo Stefano in Venice is a canal that runs literally beneath the apse of the Gothic church of Santo Stefano. The arch under the church is so low that the canal is impassable at high tide or during high water. The church itself was completed
Shabti of Ptahmes, an official under Ramesses II, from Saqqara in the Louvre
An ancient Egyptian ritual statuette made for a high-ranking official named Ptahmose, who lived in the New Kingdom, in the reign of the pharaoh Ramesses II. Ptahmose was a royal scribe, steward of the royal estates and mayor of Memphis. The shabti, that is, the funerary figurine, of Ptahmose
Anthony Lookout's book on the Osage Tilton and Grace Entoka from Nebraska
Let me tell you about an interesting book. The University of Nebraska Press has published Tilton and Grace Entoka: An Osage Story by the writer Anthony Lookout. The Osage are one of the indigenous peoples of North America; the book is devoted to Native storytellers and appears in the series
A 1941 Enigma I Cipher Machine Sold at Bonhams for More Than £200,000
An Enigma I cipher machine sold for more than £200,000 The auction house Bonhams put the machine, made for the German army around 1941, up for sale in its online auction "Espionage: Fact and Fiction". The Enigma was an electromechanical machine that turned the plain text of