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Young lady, this is a chest of drawers from the GDR: have you any idea how long the queues for them were?
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Frodo Baggins Was 33 When He Received the Ring of Power
He set out from Rivendell for Mount Doom only 17 years later. All that time Gandalf was gathering information about the Ring. Thus the Ring was destroyed when Frodo was already past 50. In the film adaptation, all of this took no more than a couple of weeks, three at
Faith · Art · Society · Pop Culture
The author considers anime-style icons acceptable in books but not in church premises
Patriarch Kirill on Orthodox anime:. …a few words on church art as an instrument of the Orthodox mission. Church art, in its most varied forms, has always been a vital component of our national culture. Of late, a new and highly ambiguous style of icon painting has gained currency, in
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Non-stop vandalism in churches, cemeteries, squares and memorials across Europe
Non-stop vandalism in churches, cemeteries, squares and memorials across Europe. But the most frightening thing is that this is only the beginning
Art · Museums · Observations · Mores
Following the Example of Their Elders
In the painting by Vasily Maximov (1844-1911) from the collection of the Irkutsk Regional Art Museum, we see a boy secretly drinking wine, unbeknown to his parents. The painting is called "Following the Example of Their Elders". Our youth love luxury, they are badly brought up, they
In the Press · Books · Heritage
The channel has already published a piece on how, in recent years, European libraries have suffered badly from thefts of rare editions of Russian classics: in the Baltic states, Berlin, Warsaw, The Hague, Geneva, Lyon, Munich, Paris, Prague and Helsinki,
The channel has already published a piece on how, in recent years, European libraries have suffered badly from thefts of rare editions of Russian classics: in the Baltic states, Berlin, Warsaw, The Hague, Geneva, Lyon, Munich, Paris, Prague and Helsinki, book thieves substituted copies for the originals. The most popular
Geography · Science · Palaeontology · People
Palaeontologist Andrey Spiridonov on the Baltic as the ancient core of Europe
Palaeontologist Andrey Spiridonov puts forward a very interesting idea of Baltica as one of the most ancient continental blocks of the Earth. He calls Baltica a palaeocontinent of the Palaeozoic era and, in effect, the ancient core of Europe, around which smaller continents have accreted over the past 450 million
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Built in 1939 by a British shipyard for a Polish-Danish company, the motor ship Sobieski was bought by the USSR in 1950 for the Black Sea Shipping Company and renamed Gruziya
Built in 1939 by a British shipyard for a Polish-Danish company, the motor ship Sobieski was bought by the USSR in 1950 for the Black Sea Shipping Company and renamed Gruziya (“Georgia”). In the film The Diamond Arm, the motor ship Gruziya appears under the name Mikhail Svetlov. In
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Ludwig Klages on the manipulation of public opinion by newspapers
Vast masses of people, who have never in the history of mankind been so susceptible to hypnotic suggestion as they are now, have become puppets of "public opinion", manipulated by newspapers that serve, of course, whatever actual power prevails. What is printed in the morning editions of the
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When the building's group chat said "the residents' council has resolved", this is not quite what I had pictured
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