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Actress Vera Vasilyeva has died, and her role in Viktyuk's production is worth revisiting
Vera Vasilyeva, the radiant, kind and exalted Russian actress, has died. Let us revisit her mischievous performance in Viktyuk's touching production and remember this wonderful, remarkable woman with a kind word https://theparnassian.com/v-pamiat-o-romane-viktiuke-predlagaiu-posmotret-odnu-iz-ego-pozdnikh-teatralnykh-rabot-postanovku-
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Would someone please make the Moscow Metro a diagram like the one at London's Piccadilly Circus station!
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Every morning I tell myself: one more day, one more chance to labour according to my strength and talents, like the little angel at the bookbinder's press in the engraving from Jean Leclerc's History of the Netherlands of 1728
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The Incredulity of Thomas: the apostle touches Christ's wound, painting detail
Faith · Art · Museums
Hendrick ter Brugghen painted “The Incredulity of Thomas” in 1622, now in the Rijksmuseum
Doubting Thomas. 1622. And he has brought witnesses, one of them even in spectacles. Hendrick ter Brugghen (1588-1629), Rijksmuseum collection
Faith · Monarchies · Museums · Science
Walking mechanical monk of the 16th century in the Smithsonian collection
The Getty research and education project tells the story of this unique artefact, created at the meeting point of science, art and religion. An almost supernatural automaton, 40 centimetres tall and 450 years old, in the form of a monk. The walking, gesticulating wooden figure belongs to the collection of
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Wonders of Engineering: Apennine Tunnel, Eiffel Tower, Skyscraper and Magnitogorsk
Archive · Architecture · Geography · Education · Society
Ancient and Soviet Seven Wonders of the World in the Children's Magazine “Yozh” of 1935
The Seven Wonders of the World in Antiquity:. The Pyramid of Cheops The Gardens of Semiramis The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus The Tomb of Mausolus The Statue of Zeus The Colossus of Rhodes The Pharos Lighthouse. The Seven Wonders of the World under Soviet Power: The Dnieper Hydroelectric Station
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The Hobbit to be published in September with more than 50 of Tolkien's own illustrations
In September an edition of The Hobbit with Tolkien's own illustrations will be published. It is the first edition to include an expanded selection of the author's own sketches: the book will contain more than 50 drawings, studies, maps, manuscript pages and paintings by J. R.