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Elizabeth II and the Legendary Quotation about Monomakh's Cap
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Babylonian Prefab
Babylonian Prefab. Ivan Ponivanov, 2024
Observations · Society
Women at 53.5% of the population per Rosstat and doubts over a 10% change in a year
Colleagues, all of you who write that women make up 63% of the population of Russia, please note: this claim refers to other publications on the internet, not to any specific recent count, which is simply never cited. Last year, the Federal State Statistics Service gave a figure of 53.
Books · Observations · Mores · People
Let us return briefly to the theme of Marina Tsvetaeva and the pink dress, which appears in her poems for good reason
Let us return briefly to the theme of Marina Tsvetaeva and the pink dress, which appears in her poems for good reason. The dress also caught the attention of Ekaterina Gorpinko, who examined the history of Tsvetaeva's "pink dress" in greater detail for her book "
Museums · Observations · Heritage · Science · Paris
Four gold nuggets stolen from the National Museum of Natural History in Paris
Shocked to Learn That Several Gold Nuggets Were Stolen Last Week from a Paris Mineralogy Gallery. The theft took place in the early hours of 17 September. The perpetrators entered the hall of mineralogy and geology at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris by disabling the security system
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Mineral collection in a hall with wooden display cases
Faith · Art
The Resurrection: The Angels Rolling the Stone Away from the Sepulchre
William Blake, circa 1805
NB! · Art · Observations · Nature
Pink roses in a glass vase in a painting by Jean François van Dael
In my opinion, Jan Frans van Dael has captured the loveliest variety of rose in the world. I do not know what it is called, but these flowers are magnificent
Coming Up · Art · Paris
A little-known Picasso to go under the hammer in Paris
The work in question is a painting entitled "Bust of a Woman in a Flowered Hat", which depicts Dora Maar, the artist's muse and lover. Until now this portrait was known to specialists and admirers of the Spanish painter's work only from black-and-
Faith · Science · Society · People · Rome
The head of the Roman Catholic Church must not have a virtual double, Pope Leo XIV declared, commenting on the abandonment of the idea of creating an AI pope-consultant
In May, Leo XIV named artificial intelligence as one of the most important problems facing humanity. He observed that AI may create obstacles to “human dignity, justice and labour”
Architecture · Heritage · People · Pop Culture
Jeremy Irons restored the 15th-century Kilcoe Castle in County Cork
Jeremy Irons lives in a restored 15th-century Irish castle. In 1998 the actor bought the ruined Kilcoe Castle in County Cork; its restoration took six years and about 2 million dollars. Irons's castle was built in 1458, but from 1603 onwards it lay in a state of