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Painting of the Pantheon interior at the National Gallery of Art in Washington
Giovanni Paolo Panini, Interior of the Pantheon. Washington, National Gallery of Art
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Mikhail Lomonosov on the merits of the Russian language among European languages
Charles the Fifth, Emperor of Rome, used to say that one should speak Spanish with God, French with friends, German with the enemy, and Italian with the fair sex. But had he been skilled in the Russian tongue, he would surely have added that one may fittingly speak it with
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The Sun reports on the latest scientific findings confirming that the Shroud of Turin was first made about 2,000 years ago, which coincides with the time of Jesus Christ, suggesting that the burial cloth with…
Thousands of hours have gone into the study of the Shroud: professionals from a variety of fields have examined the tiniest particles of pollen, microscopic fragments of stone, the details of photographs and X-rays of the cloth, its weave and much else besides. This is not the first study
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Alexandre Dumas's journey through Russia and the Caucasus in 1858 and 1859
Alexandre Dumas in a Circassian coat during his three-month stay in the Caucasus. Dumas père travelled through Russia in 1858 to 1859, having come at the invitation of the patron of the arts Count Kushelev-Bezborodko, who is called the prototype of the Count of Monte Cristo, and, for
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Mentions of Various Countries in the Polish Anthem
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The History of One English Road, from the Cretaceous to the Present Day
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Detail of the Annunciation (the Madrid version, the best known), painted by Fra Beato Angelico in 1435
Detail of the Annunciation (the Madrid version, the best known), painted by Fra Beato Angelico in 1435. Look at the wing of the Archangel Gabriel and imagine the level of mastery of a Dominican friar of the early fifteenth century
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Curator Natalya Sutyagina on the Noin-Ula finds exhibition at the Hermitage until 29 September
Until 29 September the Hermitage is hosting the exhibition "The Archaeological Phenomenon. Between Past and Future". Today an interview was published with the exhibition's chief curator, Natalia Sutyagina, Senior Researcher in the Hermitage's Department of the East. I decided to highlight the most interesting
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Maria Branyas Morera, the world's oldest person, has died at the age of 117
Yesterday the Spanish supercentenarian María Branyas Morera passed away. Since 2023 María Branyas had been the oldest living person on Earth whose date of birth is documented. At the time of her death she was 117 years and 169 days old. Señora Morera was born in San Francisco, California, on
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Why Russian Calls the French Kings Louis by the Name Ludovic
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Russian usage allowed both Lyudovik and Ludovik as correct spellings, which is why many sources give the names of French kings in precisely this way. Strictly speaking, however, French has the name Ludovic, Ludovicus alongside the name Louis, and the kings are called precisely
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Nicolas de Staël, View of Le Havre from the Honfleur Coast, 1952
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