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The Theatre at Epidaurus, built in the 340s BC, and its festival held since 1955
Spectators at Sophocles' "Antigone" in the ancient Greek theatre at Epidaurus in 1956. The theatre at Epidaurus is the best preserved of all the theatres of Ancient Greece. The amphitheatre, built to seat fifteen thousand spectators in the 340s BC close to the Asclepieion, not far from
Coming Up · Art · Moscow
Vinzavod Open Studios of the 11th season open to visitors from 3 July
From 3 July the Open Studios at Winzavod are open to visitors. Visiting the studios, one can meet the participants of the 11th season: Alisa Smorodina, Yury Chernyshev, Anya Grositskaya, Nadya Petrova, Dina Borovik, Lana Morozova, Marina Glebova, Alexandr Gordeyev, Yevgenia Bolyukh and Vanya Repkin. The Winzavod Open Studios form
Cinema · Monarchies · Observations
BBC and CBS Studios Are Working on a Drama Series About William the Conqueror
Starring: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as William the Conqueror, founder of the Anglo-Norman kingdom, and James Norton as King Harold Godwinson, the last crowned Anglo-Saxon king of England. Roll on 1066
NB! · Observations
What an Overwhelming Concentration of Beauty Looks Like
Cinema · Humour
Reportedly, women played most of the Riders of Rohan in “The Lord of the Rings”
It is said that most of the Riders of Rohan in the filming of The Lord of the Rings were played by women with glued-on beards and moustaches, riding their own horses. It follows that, had Éowyn and Merry not slain the Witch-king of Angmar, any rank-and-
NB! · London · Society · People · Humour
As Jacob Rees-Mogg Demonstrates, the British Parliament Is a Place Not Only for Debate but for the Afternoon Nap
Books · Observations · Science · Humour
Trepanation in the practice of the 16th-century Spanish physician Franciscus Arceus
Dreadful, dreadful, dreadful medicine of the past. What bliss to live in the twentieth century. And, in part, the twenty-first. Trepanation by the sixteenth-century Spanish physician Francisco Arceo
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Bring Us Some Cream, James Andrews and Me
NB! · Art · Observations
Which Van Dyck Would You Prefer?
NB! · Monarchies · Pop Culture · Humour
His Highness Is No Virtuoso, but One Might Say the Prince Is One Letter Away from a Legendary Guitarist
Observations · Society
In France There Will Be No Laws or Values Other Than French Ones
Marine Le Pen One would like to believe it