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Naples, photograph by Ferdinando Scianna, 1997
Naples, photograph by Ferdinando Scianna, 1997. On the wall is a work by the painter Ernest Pignon-Ernest
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Ruins of the St Mark's Campanile and the damaged Biblioteca Marciana, Venice
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On 14 July 1902, a dreadful thing happened in Venice: the bell tower of St Mark's Basilica collapsed in Piazza San Marco, with repair work under way on its roof
On 14 July 1902 a dreadful thing happened in Venice: the bell tower of St Mark's Basilica collapsed in Piazza San Marco, with repair work under way on its roof. The main causes of the collapse were said to be wear and tear, the effects of earthquakes and
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The Holy Synod banned the New Year tree in 1916 amid anti-German feeling in the First World War
In 1916 the Holy Synod banned the New Year tree. A tradition that had come from Germany was swept up in the general anti-German hysteria of the First World War
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Oleg Pavlovich Tabakov and the Case of “What Is Permitted to Jupiter Is Not Permitted to the Ox”
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Church penance as punishment in the 18th century in law and in practice
In the eighteenth century a number of crimes carried ecclesiastical penalties alongside civil sanctions. One such measure was penance, imposed by a church court. In 1716, for instance, the Military Statute obliged offenders to repent of idolatry, sorcery, the charming of firearms, fornication, perjury and manslaughter. Practice, however, could differ
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David in the Italian Courtyard of the Pushkin Museum during the Great Patriotic War
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Vatican excommunication for communist teaching and party membership remains in force
On 1 July 1949 Pope Pius XII excommunicated all Communists from the Catholic Church, calling Marxism an "implacable enemy" of Christianity. Excommunication was imposed for embracing the Communist doctrine and propagating it, for membership of the Communist Party and collaboration with it, and for reading and distributing its
Architecture · Observations · Humour
Architectural elevation of a town house facade with mansard and balconies
What Is Stopping You from Building Houses Like This? (In fact, we know what)
Art · Observations · Humour
The drawing is called “Big Dreams”
The drawing is called “Big Dreams”. The artist is Jean-Jacques Sempé, 1997 And how do your weekends begin?
Archive · Mores · Paris · Humour
Women selling chips and a customer at the entrance of a shop in Paris, 1920
Tasty, and That's Full Stop: A Hundred Years Ago. A man awaiting his chips in Paris in 1920
Observations · Science · Society
Question about a single national list of scientific periodicals given RINTs, the VAK list and RSCI
Vladislav Panchenko, Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences, proposes the creation of a national list of scientific periodicals. He explains that “without a single national list of scientific periodicals we shall not be able to go on developing, or to defend our positions in the international scientific community, including