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Matryona Rasputina, Newton's forecast, Notre-Dame's bells and other topics in the digest

I have put together a digest of the most interesting posts that appeared on the channel in September:. 📌 The story of the circus performer Matryona Rasputina, daughter of Grigory Rasputin 📌 666 degrees Celsius. The forecast of the end of the world by Isaac Newton 📌 The financing of the 1917 revolution

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The fourteen-year-old Philip, Prince of Greece and Denmark, in costume for a production of Macbeth at Gordonstoun School in Scotland

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It feels as though ticket prices of 45 to 65 euros for a concert by a second-tier ensemble in the Église de la Madeleine in Paris are about twice what they should be

One must learn to value the accessibility of culture and to attend events with more humane prices more actively: firstly, this supports the loyal institutions, and secondly, it helps to keep prices low. By way of comparison, not an entirely fair one, of course, tickets for the anniversary concert of

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In an eighteenth-century alchemical manuscript, "The Wisdom of the Ancient Philosophers, or Their Teaching on the Supreme and Universal Medicine", once kept in the Capuchin library on the Rue Saint-Honoré and describing a universal medicine capable of pre

Let us take four from the many scenes: Fermentatio, Putrefactio, Solutio, Calcinatio. They show, first, the substance: a toad half-submerged in water and speckled with rising bubbles. This is the textbook visual representation of the "putrefaction of matter, often accompanied by the release of gas. Putrefaction is followed

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Poseidon on the Throne

The German-Austrian painter Heinrich Friedrich Füger, late eighteenth century

Guests in white face makeup, one with blue hair in a white feather dress, in a room with a gilded mirror and a chandelier.

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The Matiere fecales brand, its unusual aesthetic and Rick Owens's wife in the front row

A fashion I do not understand. The brand Matiere fecales distinguished itself last season too, with its peculiar aesthetic and the delighted wife of Rick Owens in the front row. As for the name, put it through a translator yourselves; my hand refuses to translate it here.

A woman in a floral coat, seen from behind, photographs an old portrait of a girl in a pink dress in a gilded frame. The gallery wall is pink, and a red rope stands in front of the painting.

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Museum visitor photographing a portrait of a young girl in a pink dress

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A Happy Coincidence

A happy coincidence. A project by the French photographer Stéphane Dréchan about people in museums and their looks that match works of art

Engraving of a crowned woman in a mantle holding an orb and sceptre, with a plumed helmet and armour beside her and the caption “L'Evrope”.

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Allegory of Europe in an engraving by Gilles Rousselet, late 17th century

Allegories of Europe and Asia. Engraving by Gilles Rousselet, late seventeenth century

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Ludwig I built Walhalla near Regensburg in 1842, a memorial to eminent Germans

Catherine II Has Gone to Valhalla. In 1842 Ludwig I built Walhalla in Bavaria, a majestic memorial edifice to perpetuate the memory of outstanding Germans. Conforming precisely to the Greek architectural canon, the building, designed by Leo von Klenze, stands on a high bank of the Danube, 10 km from

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How the names of ships seen from a dacha window changed over forty years

Alla Demidova on ships and their names:. For more than forty years now I have watched from my dacha window this picture of ships sailing past. We had a game: who could make out a name first. Little by little I grasped a certain regularity: the two-deckers were given

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Picasso Museum in Paris to be renovated from 2028 to 2030 at a cost of 50 million euros

Picasso Museum in Paris Announces Major Redevelopment by 2030. The Picasso Museum in Paris, which holds the largest collection of the artist's work in the world, with more than 5,000 works and 200,000 archival items, is preparing for a major redevelopment. The plans include a new

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