Books · Observations · Mores
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children
Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims / Fruits of Solitude. William Penn, 1693
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Faith · Art · Museums
Italian artist Correggio's painting of 1526 in the collection of the Uffizi Gallery
Madonna Adoring the Child. Italian Renaissance painter Correggio, 1526, collection of the Uffizi Gallery
Faith · Books · London
Marley’s Ghost in Dickens’s novella “A Christmas Carol in Prose” of 1843
The ghost of Jacob Marley appeared before Ebenezer Scrooge on Christmas Eve. Marley, the miser's former partner, found himself after death bound in chains made up of ledgers and cash-boxes: in life, after all, he had been far too greedy. Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol
NB! · Science · Society · Ethnography
Putin instructs the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the Russian Academy of Sciences to draw up and approve a comprehensive programme of research devoted to the all-round ethnographic study of the Russian people
Putin has instructed the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education, jointly with the Russian Academy of Sciences, to draw up and approve a comprehensive programme of research devoted to the all-round ethnographic study of the Russian people. The instruction is to be carried out by 1 March 2026.
Observations · Society · Humour
Hurrah!
Hurrah! Speaking the truth about Lenin, hangman of the Russian people, and his gang of bloodthirsty murderers is now permitted! Anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda have been recognised as acts that present no public danger, and those convicted of them are subject to rehabilitation regardless of the factual soundness of
Archive · Faith · Museums · Ethnography
Novgorod Museum-Reserve Acquires Birch-Bark Manuscript Found in an Old Believer Settlement on the Yenisei
The Novgorod Museum-Reserve has received a manuscript on birch bark, found in an Old Believer settlement on the Yenisei. The twentieth-century manuscript contains excerpts from the “Ladder of Divine Ascent” of John Climacus. In Siberian villages, letters and books continued to be produced on birch bark right up
NB! · Cinema · Paris · People
Clark Gable in Paris in 1952
Archive · The East · Science
Database of knights shows most of the first crusaders came from France
British researchers have compiled a database listing the knights who took part in the Crusades. Enthusiasts online then established their origins: it turned out that most of the first crusaders came from France. Even many of those who set out from England or southern Italy were natives of the Norman
Architecture · Observations · Society · Humour
They write that French farmers have dumped heaps of rubbish, muck and tyres in front of Macron's house in Le Touquet, in a resort area in the north of France, not far from the Pas-de-Calais
They write that French farmers have dumped heaps of rubbish, muck and tyres in front of Macron's house in Le Touquet, in a resort area in the north of France, not far from the Pas-de-Calais. I decided to have a look at what sort of house
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Three men in suits seated at a conference table, with people behind them
Almaty · Archive · Society
On 21 December 1991 the Alma-Ata Declaration was signed, the document that effectively confirmed the end of the USSR
The Declaration on the Aims and Principles of the CIS and its Foundations confirmed the Belovezha Accords, stating that with the formation of the CIS the USSR ceases to exist. The document was signed at a meeting of presidents in Alma-Ata, the capital of Kazakhstan
Archive · Art · People
The sculptor Phidias creates the statue of the goddess Athena Pallas for the Parthenon
The Italian artist Raffaello Sorbi, 1869