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The Baltic Way human chain linked Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius on 23 August 1989
An incredible political statement, an incredible unity. A living chain 670 kilometres long: on 23 August 1989, the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, people joined hands to link Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius. More than two million people formed the human chain, named the "Baltic
NB! · Art · Observations · Humour
Still Life “Wafer Rolls” by Lubin Baugin, Painted in 1635
Wafer rolls. Still life. 1635, by the French painter Lubin Baugin. With boiled condensed milk, I trust.
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Alexey Kondakov Is ❤️
Archaeology · Interviews · Science · People
The lovely Maria Dobrovolskaya, head of the Laboratory of Contextual Anthropology at the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, has spoken on a most unusual subject: vegetarianism and ancient people
The lovely Maria Dobrovolskaya, head of the Laboratory of Contextual Anthropology at the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, has spoken on a most unusual subject: vegetarianism and ancient people. Besides such questions as vegetarians among the ancestors of modern man and the influence of diet on
Museums · Observations · Ethnography · Humour
Ivan Grinko in “Etno dialogi” proposes viewing the museum through the concept of totemism
Ivan Grinko of the Moscow Agency for the Organisation of Leisure and Tourism offers, in his article in "Ethno Dialogues", a rather original view of museum totemism. Let us replace the word "totem" in the definition with the word "museum", and it really does
NB! · Archive · Faith · Art
Design for a cavalry standard from the time of the English Civil War, depicting the Catholic Church as a many-headed monster
Design for a cavalry standard from the time of the English Civil War, depicting the Catholic Church as a many-headed monster. This Gorynych wears a papal tiara on one head, a scarlet cardinal's galero on another, the black birettas of the common clergy on the rest and,
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Meme about French kings: Louis XIII, XIV and XVI
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Staircase of the Hundred Steps above the Versailles orangeries under snow
Versailles in winter. The Staircase of a Hundred Steps above the orangeries
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Illegible handwriting of a visitor to Innerpeffray Library in 1878
When some self-important reception-desk outfit presses too insistently for my passport details, I deliberately write in the same hand as this charming visitor to the Innerpeffray Library in 1878. Kindred spirits find one another even across the centuries
Art · Books · Observations
In Robertson Davies’s novel, an expert spots a fake Hubert van Eyck by its monkey
"In the novel What's Bred in the Bone by the celebrated Canadian writer Robertson Davies, there is a scene in which international experts meet in The Hague in the second half of the 1930s. Art-historian connoisseurs who have come from the USA, France, Belgium and Germany,
London · Monarchies · Observations
Incidentally, on the subject of Camilla, the potential Queen Consort, it is curious that it was originally supposed that, should Prince Charles be crowned, she would receive the title of Princess Consort…
Incidentally, on the subject of Camilla, the potential Queen Consort, it is curious that it was originally supposed that, should Prince Charles be crowned, she would receive the title of Princess Consort, and this was connected with the special position of the late Princess Diana, chiefly in the hearts of