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Winter in Moscow in the 1950s in the photographs of Vladimir Stepanov: Red Square, the Yauza embankment, Novoalekseyevskaya Street, Sokolniki, Furmanny Lane, Volkhonka, the Bolshoi Theatre, Gogolevsky Boulevard
Vladimir Stepanov Foundation
Aristocracy · Archive · Faith · London · Monarchies
Genealogy traces Elizabeth II and her descendants to the patriarch Jacob and his son Judah
According to this genealogical construction, the English royal family, namely Elizabeth II and her descendants, trace their origin to the progenitor of the 12 Tribes of Israel, the third Old Testament patriarch Jacob, called Israel. What is more, Elizabeth is a descendant of Jacob-Israel and his son Judah not
Archive · Observations · Science · Mores · Humour
Darwin listed the pros and cons of marriage and wed his cousin Emma
A reminder that Darwin was not merely drawing up a list of the advantages and drawbacks of marriage before deciding to wed, but following the ideas of Benthamism then in vogue, and specifically Jeremy Bentham's schemes of "moral arithmetic" The Darwin archive holds an amusing sheet
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Environmental Art According to a Dictionary Entry of 1997
NB! · Books · Humour
Dostoevsky Warms His Ears
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I Have Bad News for You
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Mikhail Bulgakov at Twenty
Books · People
God, how I long to live!..
God, how I long to live!.. Even as a little mouse I would live out my days and sprinkle my burrow with tears And, in rapture, tear open the little shirt on my chest, And carefully chew a last year's crust. Literal translation God, how I long to
NB! · Observations · Pop Culture
The author recalls 1990s Russian television and compares it with today's
Remember him? I count the 1990s as the golden years of Russian television. Nowadays it is all straw.
In the Press · Faith · The East · Society
The Guardian once ran a rather strange story about how, in a telephone conversation with French President Jacques Chirac in 2003, George W. Bush appealed to their shared Christian faith as grounds for invading Iraq
The Guardian once ran a rather strange story about how, in a telephone conversation with French President Jacques Chirac in 2003, George W. Bush appealed to their shared Christian faith as grounds for invading Iraq. Bush is supposed to have said to Chirac something along these lines: “Gog and Magog
Coming Up · Art · London
The star lot of Christie’s forthcoming March sale will be Gerhard Richter’s landscape “Schober (Haybarn)”, painted in 1984
The canvas carries a pre-sale estimate of £6–8 million