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What do you think: is it fake news or not that Barack Obama was in fact born in Kenya, and so was an illegitimate President of the United States, elected by means of a fraud
Faith · Cinema · Mores · Rome
The late myth of executions involving gorillas and chimpanzees in Ancient Rome
Stills from the 1932 American historical film "The Sign of the Cross", on ancient Rome and Nero's persecution of the Christians. The execution scene involving a gorilla or chimpanzee belongs to a very late myth about Roman mores. There is no confirmation that such a practice
Faith · Science · Society · People
Nikola Tesla in Serbia: veneration of the scientist in churches without canonisation
A Portrait of Nikola Tesla in an Orthodox Church in Serbia. Tesla has not been canonised, but as a great scientist he is regarded by the people as a saint of a cultural order. Hence his portraits, and even icons bearing his likeness, may be found in churches, though this
Cinema · Observations · Humour
Review of the film “Frankenstein” as a story of two solitudes
From the new del Toro film one gets the sense that he has been waiting a good while for the chance to show off his new horrors to the lads and say: look what a monster I've got, and what a character! The critics leave the auditorium deep
The East · Books · Observations
Ryunosuke Akutagawa on the swift passage of time and the year gone by
Time and tide wait for no man. A year has flown by like a snowflake falling into a river: white for a moment, and then gone for ever. Ryunosuke Akutagawa
NB! · Cinema · Observations
Guillermo del Toro's "Frankenstein" is beautiful
Books · Observations
Tradition is a beauty that we preserve, not a set of shackles that bind us
Ezra Pound
Books · Observations · Humour
How many books have those who name a favourite on a topic really read
So amusing, when people say "one of my favourite books on the subject", as though implying that they have read a great multitude of books on the subject. But they have not. We all know perfectly well that they have not
Cinema · Books · Society
Gaumont releases first trailer for "The Wizard of the Kremlin", French director Olivier Assayas's film based on the book by the Swiss-Italian writer Giuliano da Empoli about the political strategist Vadim Baranov, who began…
Vladimir Putin is played by Jude Law, Baranov by Paul Dano. The world premiere is scheduled for 21 January 2026. The Russian Ministry of Culture has stated that it "has received no applications for a distribution licence for 'The Wizard of the Kremlin'".
Mores · Society
Convention decree of 1793 required French bakers to bake only the bread of equality
In November 1793 the Convention issued an unalterable decree in France that all Frenchmen must eat "one and the same bread". Under pain of imprisonment, all bakers were obliged to bake only one kind of loaf, known as the bread of equality. The bread of equality was baked
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