Art · Museums · New York
Snowy Landscape, Vincent van Gogh, 1888. Fields in the environs of La Crau, opposite the abbey of Montmajour. One of ten snow-covered landscapes painted by Van Gogh between 1882 and 1889. Collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.
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Art · Monarchies · Museums · Saint Petersburg
Imperial Parade of the Finland Regiment of the Life Guards, Boris Kustodiev, 1906. Hermitage collection. The painting was commissioned by the Finland Regiment of the Life Guards on the occasion of Nicholas II's visit to the regiment and the presentation to it of its colonel-in-chief, the
Books · New York · Pop Culture
The Baltimore Ravens are the only professional sports club named after a work of classic literature. The Ravens take their name from the poem "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, who lived in Baltimore. The mystical, enigmatic plot of "The Raven" tells of a bird that
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Geography · Science · Nature
The rapid melting of the glaciers on the "shining mountain" of Kilimanjaro in Tanzania is nowadays linked to the ruthless felling of the rainforests on its slopes. It is believed that, with the disappearance of the forest, the slopes have ceased to store the moisture which they once
Art · Museums · Heritage · Saint Petersburg
By various estimates, El Greco's surviving painted oeuvre today comprises between 137 and 300 pictures. Russian museums hold only 5 canvases by El Greco: 3 in the Hermitage, 1 in Nizhny Novgorod and 1 in the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. The first El Greco picture purchased
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The Cat and the Butterfly. Jean-Jacques Bachelier, 1761
Books · Observations · Science · Mores · Humour
Reading a person's character from the look of the hair, after a book of 1765. To my mind, it all holds together, and the science is the more exact for being ancient White hair shows a cold nature. If the hair goes grey before its time, it signifies
Faith · Museums · People
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