The Parnassian (Page 16)

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Pope Leo XIV on faith that must be rediscovered and the danger of habit

Who is the Lord for me? Do I truly know Him? What does His Gospel demand of me today? What steps must I take? Pope Leo XIV turned to the Gospel reading in which Christ asks His disciples who they say that He is. The question is put to people

Old black-and-white photograph of a stage: men in tunics and bast shoes, a woman in a headdress holding a bowl, and a kneeling man.

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Karl Bulla photographed a scene from a play on Russian history in Saint Petersburg in the 1910s

A scene from a play on a theme from Russian history. The photograph was taken by Karl Bulla in Saint Petersburg in the 1910s

Observations · Mores · Humour

How right he is!

I no longer know what words to use to explain to my acquaintances, and mostly to people I barely know, that I would rather not embrace and kiss in place of an ordinary greeting; each time it is an awkward situation

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“The Descent into Hell”, a medieval stone sculpture from the parish church of Saint-Symphorien, at an exhibition in the Fenaille Museum in Rodez, France

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Statute on Zemstvo Institutions, with All Relevant Enactments and with Judicial and Governmental Clarifications

Statute on Zemstvo Institutions, with All Relevant Enactments and with Judicial and Governmental Clarifications. Author: Mysh

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Alexander Rodchenko with a Pair of Compasses, 1948

NB! · Archive · Faith · Ethnography

Mordvin Pilgrim Women at the Ponetayevka Convent for Women in 1904

Top-down photo of an archaeological trench with rough stone walls. At the center is a rectangular area marked with a grid and rows of small light-colored markers.

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Aerial view of an excavation with stone walls and a gridded area

Archaeology · Architecture · The East · Science

At Göbekli Tepe, the world's oldest megalithic temple complex, more than 11,500 years old, rectangular buildings have been found that may have served as dwellings

The site is being surveyed by means of geomagnetic mapping, ground-penetrating radar and lidar scanning. The head of the excavation reports that the new rectangular structures are concentrated chiefly in the eastern and southern parts of the hill and lie next to the already known circular monumental buildings with

Archaeology · The East · Science

Midianite pottery as a trademark, distributed from an oasis to the Levant and Arabia

An analysis of several dozen Bronze Age vessels from the Qurayyah oasis in north-western Arabia may have identified the first branded goods in human history. The two-colour painted pottery of this region has long been known to specialists as "Midianite", and its origin remained a matter

Art · Museums · Observations · Humour

“Smell” by Jan Miense Molenaer, from his series on the five senses, 1637

"Smell", Jan Miense Molenaer, 1637. Collection of the Mauritshuis I do, of course, understand that with his series of the five senses the Dutch master, with his characteristic humour and earthy realism, invites us to forget about lofty allegories and maidens with bouquets of flowers, but even so,

A helicopter carries a log on a long cable above a fishing boat. Spruce trees stand on a rocky shore at left, and an island is faint in the fog. Credit: Michael Hughan Blazic III.

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