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Art · Monarchies · Paris · People
Ravaillac's Assassination of Henry IV in Paris on 14 May 1610 and His Execution
The regicide François Ravaillac is shown in an engraving with the very dagger with which he took the life of King Henri IV in two blows, having leapt onto the step of his carriage, which had halted on the rue de la Ferronnerie in Paris on 14 May 1610. Ravaillac
NB! · Archive · Mores · Nature · Humour
The Durham ox, which died in 1807 weighing over 1,200 kg, appeared on plates
This Durham ox won posthumous fame, and a place on plates and postcards, merely by weighing a great deal. At the time of his death in 1807 he weighed over 1,200 kg
Monarchies · People
Prince Carl Philip of Sweden, Duke of Värmland, was born on 13 May 1979
Today the most handsome prince in Europe, Carl Philip of Sweden, turns 41. On the day of his birth, 13 May 1979, a salute of 101 guns was fired in Stockholm. The second child of King Carl XVI Gustaf, he studied in the USA, served in the navy and took
Art · Museums · New York · People
Ralph Cahoon, a furniture decorator who became a painter of mermaids for wealthy New York homes
The Massachusetts artist Ralph Cahoon (1910-1982), an American of Dutch descent, began as a furniture decorator but fairly soon found his subject: folk motifs featuring mermaids. With the help of one of his clients, the celebrated philanthropist and patron of the arts Joan Whitney, Cahoon introduced his work to
The East · Science · Ethnography
The word alcohol derives from the Arabic name for kohl, the ancient eye cosmetic
Kohl, the eye-liner pencil known in the East since the 4th millennium BC, etymologically precedes the word alcohol, borrowed by Europeans from the Arab world. Alcohol derives from the Arabic al-kuħl, meaning "made of antimony", or, literally, of kohl. The word entered Arabic from Assyro-Babylonian,
Archive · Interviews · Society · People
Viktor Petrovich Astafyev, in conversation with Georgy Stepanovich Zhzhenov about the war, voices an interesting thought about a people that calls itself great, yet for some reason lets itself be led on a leash like a calf, chooses a criminal government f
Viktor Petrovich Astafyev, in conversation with Georgy Stepanovich Zhzhenov about the war, voices an interesting thought about a people that calls itself great, yet for some reason lets itself be led on a leash like a calf, chooses a criminal government for itself and condemns itself to a beggarly existence.
Architecture · Art · Moscow · Observations
Rimskaya metro station in Moscow, opened in 1995, and the works of Leonid Berlin
The works of della Robbia recalled the sculptures at Rimskaya metro station in Moscow, opened in 1995. Rimskaya is a most unusual station, both in its architecture and in its decorative scheme. Where else on the metro would you find a fountain? The station was built with the participation of
NB! · Faith · Art · Museums · New York
Resurrection, Giovanni della Robbia, 1520-1525, Brooklyn Museum
Interviews · Heritage · Society
RTVI interview with the last surviving witness of the Babi Yar shootings near Kyiv
The last surviving witness of the mass shootings at Babyn Yar has given an interview to RTVI. Estimates of the number of people shot in the ravine near Kyiv between 1941 and 1943 vary from 70,000 to 200,000. A tragic monument to a history that must not be
Archive · Faith · Museums · Heritage
During the brief but most brutal Nazi occupation of the Moscow region, a great many museums and churches came under attack
During the brief but most brutal Nazi occupation of the Moscow region, a great many museums and churches came under attack. People of science and art threw all their strength into saving the treasures of culture: very many collections simply could not be evacuated in time, and their fate had
Mores · New York · People
The woman in the photograph is Mary Ann Bevan, née Webster; in her thirties she came to be called the ugliest woman in the world
The woman in the photograph is Mary Ann Bevan, née Webster; in her thirties she came to be called the ugliest woman in the world. A nurse and mother of four, Mary Ann fell ill with acromegaly, which is caused by a disorder of the pituitary gland and shows itself