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Cyberattack of 21 January 2026 halts online services at Dresden museums

The Dresden State Art Collections were hit by a cyberattack on 21 January 2026. As a result, online services have stopped working: the web shop, ticket sales and visitor services. The museums remain open, the security systems are functioning, and tickets purchased before the attack remain valid. The police and

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Two paintings by Chardin at Jonathan Anderson's debut show for Dior menswear

The Louvre and the National Galleries of Scotland lent Chardin's still lifes, sung by Diderot, for Dior's summer collection show in June 2025. Two paintings by one of the greatest realist artists of the 18th century graced the debut show of Jonathan Anderson, the new creative

Fresco of a yellow camel on a white ground, with two medallions containing red animals on a golden field above.

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Fresco with a camel from San Baudelio de Berlanga in the Metropolitan Museum

Spanish fresco of the first half of the twelfth century from the monastery church of San Baudelio de Berlanga. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Architecture · Faith · Art · Heritage

The Saviour-Transfiguration Church in Polotsk to be considered as a nominee for the UNESCO World Heritage List

The celebrated church, revered throughout Belarus, stands within one of the oldest Orthodox monasteries of Eastern Europe, the Convent of Saint Euphrosyne of Polotsk (the Saviour-Euphrosyne Monastery) in Polotsk. The stone church was built at the behest of Euphrosyne of Polotsk on the site of a wooden church, according

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Maximilian Voloshin's poem on the meaning of existence, written in Koktebel in August 1912

So strangely freely and simply The meaning of being is revealed to me, And what lies hidden in the seed of "I", And the secret of blossoming and growth. In the plant and in the stone, everywhere, In the water, in the clouds above the mountains, And in

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Emilios Veakis as King Lear, 1938, National Theatre of Greece

Geography · Society

Among the possessions of the Danish West Indies that the USA bought from Denmark were 3 large islands and several dozen small ones, including Little Saint James, which Jeffrey Epstein acquired in 1998

Among the political terms of the sale were a US guarantee of Denmark's neutrality and US recognition of Danish sovereignty over Greenland. The islands, now known as the Virgin Islands, cost the USA a mere 25 million dollars. For Denmark these colonial territories, with a population of around

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Black-and-white photograph of a woman in a light blouse and long skirt, arms outstretched before a circus tent wall, swallowing a sword.

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Diane Arbus photographed a sword swallower in Maryland, USA, in 1970

A sword swallower. Maryland, USA, 1970 Photograph by Diane Arbus

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Someone used a thirteenth-century Bible as a copybook

Faith · Books

He who is lonely in sorrow

more often dreams of the help of the Lord, when on a distant path, on a sea unknown to him, with longing in his heart, he measures with his strokes the icy sea, a lonely exile, and knows: fate is all-powerful. Literal translation from the Old English elegy "

Black-and-white photo of a snowy plain with a tent and a dark hut, and a wind turbine mast on the right. A man in fur clothing crouches by the tent, a dog beside him.

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