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It is pleasant to know that, amid all this horror, someone spends as much time photographing himself as you do
It is pleasant to know that, amid all this horror, someone spends as much time photographing himself as you do. Macron one love
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A Woman Has Found a Bronze Age Palace!!!
It is rather splendid that the days when anyone could be surprised by a scientific discovery having been made by a woman are behind us
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The Interior of Marcel Proust's Apartment
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Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, Polish palaeontologist and explorer of the Gobi Desert
The woman and the velociraptor. In the photograph: Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925 - 2015), one of the world's most distinguished palaeontologists and a key figure of post-war science in Poland. The chief objects of Zofia's scientific work were the trilobites of Central Europe, the dinosaurs of
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The Plan of My Flat
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Greeting to women worldwide in Soviet slogan style, urging them to value their freedoms
Dear collective-farm women, fight for organisational and economic management! Esteemed proletarian women, master aviation technology! Sweet peasant women, strengthen your alliance with the workers! My dear women workers, reinforce the shock brigades! Women, girls, little girls, a happy militant holiday to you, women of the whole world! Cherish the
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Cardinal Stefaneschi presents the triptych itself to Saint Peter in Giotto's triptych
The Stefaneschi Triptych in the Vatican Pinacoteca contains the so-called Droste effect, named after a tin of cocoa that bore an image of itself bearing an image of itself. If you look closely, on the central panel of the triptych Giotto depicted the patron of the work, Cardinal Stefaneschi,
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A scholar is one who leads others to what he himself has understood: to the truth
The author of these words, Thomas Aquinas, died on this day 748 years ago. Who would have thought how swiftly time flies!
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Mendeleev's suitcase at the Boblovo estate museum and the scientist's craft of making cases
One of the most valuable exhibits at the Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev Museum, the Boblovo estate, is a suitcase made by Mendeleev. The exhibit was donated to the museum by the scientist's granddaughter, Ekaterina Dmitriyevna Kamenskaya-Kuzmina. Yes, besides collecting art, Mendeleev was fond of making cases, trunks and
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Stills from Andrei Tarkovsky's final film, The Sacrifice
The protagonist chooses his own house as a votive offering to the Almighty, and promises to burn it down if the nuclear war announced on television fails to take place. Grand Prix of the 1986 Cannes Festival. Essential viewing.
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On the news of three days ago that the 198-year-old Turgenev Oak has been struck off the European "Tree of the Year" competition
On the news of three days ago that the 198-year-old Turgenev Oak has been struck off the European “Tree of the Year” competition. Every outlet illustrates the report with a photograph of the fallen tree. The oak, planted by Turgenev, was damaged in a storm in November 2021.