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Benjamin Netanyahu Was Asked: "What Are You Reading at the Moment?"
- "Jews vs Rome" by Barry Strauss - Why did you choose this book? - Last time we lost, and I think we ought to win next time From the lives of reading people
NB! · Architecture · Faith · Moscow · Observations
Speaking of Sklifosovsky
Speaking of Sklifosovsky. Many who drive past the handsome blue building with the colonnade on the Garden Ring do not even realise that it is no country estate or palace of Praskovya Zhemchugova, but a working Orthodox church
Books · Observations · Science
Do you think Plato would have befriended Nietzsche?
If Nietzsche holds that To create a new heaven and a new earth, one first had to destroy … the former highest values then for Plato true values are eternal and immutable ideas, such as goodness, beauty and justice. They are not the creations of man but patterns to which the
Cinema · Observations · Society · Pop Culture
Joan Rowling on the young “Harry Potter” actors and the stance of those who played villains
It is good that the chief villains of Harry Potter, Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter and Tom Felton, in fact support J. K. Rowling, refusing to join the pile-on against her and openly showing their gratitude to this woman. Remember the interesting observation J. K. Rowling once made about
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In the First Three Years After the Revolution, the Bolsheviks Killed More Christians than the Romans Did in Three Centuries of Persecution
Live with that Illustration: “Civil War. Decossackisation”, Dmitry Shmarin, 2000
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Napoleon’s diamond brooch, captured by the Prussians at Waterloo in 1815
Diamond Brooch of Napoleon Sells for $4.4 Million at Sotheby's in Geneva. The diamond brooch, which served as an ornament for a hat, was left behind by Napoleon in his carriage as he retreated from the field of Waterloo in 1815. During the battle the Prussian army
The East · Books · Observations · Mores · Humour
Theories on the origin of the word kolbyag, used for foreigners in Ancient Rus'
There is an old, forgotten Russian word, kolbyag, used in Ancient Rus' to denote foreigners. Which foreigners exactly is not entirely clear: according to one version, the kolbyagi were predominantly of eastern origin. Such too are the foreigners named in the Russkaya Pravda "Varangians" (Western Europeans) and
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People could put up with the bite of a wolf, but it was the bite of a sheep that truly outraged them
James Joyce
NB! · Cinema · Observations · Humour
Curiously, among the companions of Odysseus (Matt Damon) in Christopher Nolan's new film is a character played by the South Korean actor Will Yun Lee
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The United States ends penny minting as each coin costs more than three cents to make
The United States has stopped minting the penny, that is, the copper one-cent coin. A vast country, a great economy, space-age technology, and yet things did not work out with one small piece of copper. They counted, they reckoned, and they discovered that producing a one-cent coin
Moscow · Museums · Observations · Society
Paid admission at GES-2 and reflections on ideology in contemporary art museums
I know the news is stale, and that everyone has spent the past week and a half in embarrassment and has even stopped talking about it. But since I was away travelling for a long time and did not follow events closely, I am doubly unhappy about this innovation. Though,