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Russian digital book market reached 14.2 billion roubles in 2023, J’son & Partners estimates
A very serious study of the digital book market in Russia has been published by the leading analytical company J’son & Partners Consulting. This is the first independent assessment of the market, so on the whole it is a landmark event for the entire industry. The figures are very
Cinema · Society · Humour
It is held that from the 1980s onwards Italian cinema found itself in crisis; among the reasons cited is the proliferation of private television channels, which drew the viewer's attention away from the cinemas, and as a consequence…
In 2007, during the Cannes Festival, Quentin Tarantino, a great admirer of Italian cinema of the 1960s and 1970s, described the state of affairs in Italian film as tragic, because the work of recent years strikes him as samey, dreary and soul-destroying: "They are about either boys coming
Faith · Art · Museums
Francisco de Zurbarán’s “Lamb of God” of 1639 and at least seven versions of the subject
Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world. (John 1:29) The Lamb of God, Francisco de Zurbarán, 1639. At least seven versions of this subject by Zurbarán are known.
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And on Friday, I remind you, we are off to the cinema to talk about "Little Buddha"
Geography · Maps · Science · Humour
And here comes Emmanuel Macron in the Mercator projection
And here comes Emmanuel Macron in the Mercator projection. A splendid photograph for explaining why the scale on Mercator maps is not constant, and why the true area of countries differs from their area in the projection the farther one moves from the equator. This comes from the function that
NB! · Archive · Society · Paris
Victory Day in Paris, 8 May 1945
Observations · Humour
A couple kisses beneath a statue of a nude man in a photograph by René Maltête
It is still unclear which of them offends propriety more. And we have not yet even got as far as the statue of Venus Photo by René Malteste
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The Lad Tom Cruise in the USSR in 1988
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The ballet “Parade” with costumes by Picasso failed in Paris and succeeded in London in 1919
"The geometrical dauber and dabbler Picasso has pushed himself to the front of the stage, while talented artists humbly wait to be put on show," wrote the critic Léo Poldès on 19 May 1917 of Diaghilev's new Russian ballet, Parade… The characters of the ballet: the
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The bridge to Balchug over the Vodootvodny Canal has still not opened, and almost a year has passed
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Camilla Parker Bowles among the guests at the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana
Camilla Parker Bowles in a white dress and veiled hat at the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana. One really does have to be quite something to manage that…