Coming Up · Cinema · Books · Observations · Pop Culture
The new screen adaptation of Agatha Christie's "Death on the Nile" premieres on 23 October 2020. We are promised a stunning reunion of the cult British comedy duo of the 1980s and 1990s, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. Not, of course, so epic a pairing as
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Coming Up · Books · Observations
I confess, I have long been awaiting the publication of my book by the publishing house AST, and I am immensely glad that you too have shown an interest in it☺️ At the end of September my tome will at last appear on bookshop shelves: my hardbacked offspring, assembled from
NB! · In the Press · Observations · New York · Humour
A prophetic 20 August 2020 in The New Yorker's calendar. I remind you that the calendar was published as far back as 2019
Observations · Pop Culture
We have spoken a great deal about podcasts on Yandex.Music in recent posts, and I hope you have already listened to something from what I recommended. Or perhaps you were listening to them long before. So today I have a question for those in the know. It seems that
Architecture · Heritage · Society · Rome
A trace of the brief days of the Roman Republic in 1849: a cannonball lodged in the staircase of the Great Salon of Cardinal Girolamo Colonna's Baroque palace. The shots were fired at random from the Janiculum Hill into the centre of Rome, which the republicans had held
Art · Science · People
Blaise Pascal, the outstanding French inventor, mathematician, thinker and, in many respects, altogether advanced man. Sculpture by Augustin Pajou, housed at the University of Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. Pascal is known for a number of mathematical and physical discoveries with which we become acquainted as early as school: Pascal'
Museums · Heritage · Society
Meanwhile, in the United States, 12,000 museums face closure. The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) believes that one museum in three across the States may shut its doors by the end of 2020, owing to the colossal crisis that has befallen Americans this year.
Archaeology · Museums · Heritage
Speaking of underwater finds, Greece has very recently opened an underwater museum of ancient antiquities, the "Parthenon of Shipwrecks". The exhibition can be viewed if you have diving skills, until 2 October, while the diving season lasts.
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Architecture · Moscow · Observations · Heritage
After decades of neglect and ruin, the legendary Northern River Terminal, which, like many of our architectural monuments, was only a couple of years ago under threat of collapse, now looks like this: restoration work is in full swing, and they are preparing to open the building in time for
NB! · Architecture · Moscow · Observations · Heritage · Reportage
Came to see the completion of the reconstruction of the Northern River Terminal, at a cost of 2.5 billion roubles. The star will not be hoisted onto the spire today because of the squally wind. The gemstones of the hammer and sickle all seem to be in place