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Francis Bacon, one of many interpretations of Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X
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Why does the Tupolev on the monument on Akademika Tupoleva Embankment near Kursky Station look like the inventor of paper clips rather than aircraft?
NB! · Archaeology · Observations · Humour
Sundial on a column at the Temple of Apollo in Pompeii still keeps accurate time
At last, a convenient sundial. The Temple of Apollo in Pompeii. Best of all, it still tells the time without error
Art · Observations
August
August. Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, 1691. A reminder that July and August have for more than two thousand years now borne the names of the Roman emperors Julius Caesar and Octavian Augustus. Julius Caesar, who gave the world a calendar almost matching the length of the solar year, named one of
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There Is Something Not Quite Right About This Stalin...
Archive · In the Press · Moscow · Mores
Arrested: Perevedentsev, the yard-keeper of house No. 49 on Serpukhovskaya Street
Arrested: Perevedentsev, the yard-keeper of house No. 49 on Serpukhovskaya Street. The matter is this: when the police set up an ambush in one of the flats of the house, the yard-keeper warned every person making for that flat that those who came there were being detained. "
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Black lacquered tray with gold borders and an oval landscape
Art · Museums · Ethnography
"English iron is vile, but having the means to make it cheaper, they undercut us everywhere" - in 1818 the industrialist Nikolay Nikitich Demidov complains of cheap English iron, which had shaken the international standing of a trade that was, admittedly,
Yet this very thing became one of the reasons for the intensive development of the iron trades. Do you have a handsome painted lacquer tray at home? Such ware was once an indispensable and costly part of any interior. Russian decorative iron trays, salt cellars, caskets and chests replaced artistic
Archive · Books · Science · Palaeontology · Nature
Adam, Eve and Dinosaurs: The Ascent of Life
and The trumpet of scientific judgement, which raised extinct species from the dead so that they might appear before the tribunal of naturalists - witty illustrations from the astronomer Camille Flammarion's book The World Before the Creation of Man, 1886
Art · Monarchies · People
Napoleon and His Son
Napoleon and his son. In a frock. Painting by Karl Karlovich Steuben, engraving after it by Alexandre Vincent Sixdeniers
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