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Sarah Mullally appointed first woman Archbishop of Canterbury

The Church of England Headed by a Woman for the First Time in Its History. A historic event took place in Great Britain today: for the first time in the 1,400-year history of the Anglican Church, a woman has been appointed Archbishop of Canterbury: Sarah Mullally. Her candidacy

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If You Can't Beat the Potholes, at Least Decorate Them

A 1520 woodcut portrait of Martin Luther in a monk's habit, holding a book.

Faith · Observations · Education

Martin Luther's 1520 quotation and the modern Western university

I fear that the universities will prove to be the great gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them upon the hearts of youth. Martin Luther, 1520. Looking at what goes on in the Western university, one sees that a quotation five hundred

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The Fall of Icarus

The Fall of Icarus. Rodin

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Lugging his bag of money to the land of forgotten idols

Lugging his bag of money to the land of forgotten idols. Soon the Labubu will be there too

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Image of a Guardian Angel from a Book of Hours of the early sixteenth century, from the workshop of Simon Bening

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The Advent of the Bolsheviks and the Triumph of the Revolution in Russian Orthodox Iconography

Art · Books · Museums

Diomedes Wounds Aphrodite in the “Iliad” and Ingres’s Sketch in a Basel Museum

Дочь Зевсова! брось ты войну и кровавую битву; Не довольно ли, если прельщаешь ты слабых супругов? Страшно, ах, страшно опять возвращаться тебе на сраженья. Или, быть может, захочешь еще — и содрогнешься при мысли: Всякий раз, как пойдешь, увидишь то место, где рана Тяжкая в длань проницала тебе от руки Диомеда!

Archaeology · Faith · The East · Museums

Well, Aren't You Something

An amulet in the form of a dog, made around the 3rd millennium BC, is dedicated to Gula of the pantheon of south-western Iran Gula was venerated in Mesopotamia as the patroness of healing and medicine. Her sacred symbol was the dog, associated with rites of healing

The East · Cinema · Books · Observations · People

Julio Peña as Cervantes in Amenábar's film about his captivity by Algerian pirates

Among my plans for the near future: seeing Alejandro Amenábar's new film about my beloved Cervantes. Julio Peña plays Miguel de Cervantes. The action unfolds in 1575, and the narrative draws on the real biography of the author of Don Quixote. As attentive readers will remember, many years

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Ruthless Folk Fashion

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