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Alex Chinneck and His "Slipping" House
Architecture · Art · People
Alex Chinneck creates the illusion of a sliding brick house facade in Margate
The Face Has Slipped. An installation by the British artist and sculptor Alex Chinneck in the town of Margate, in the county of Kent, Great Britain. The project is a visual illusion in which the façade of a brick house appears to be "sliding" downwards and partly detaching
Heritage · Science · Palaeontology · Nature
Ant about 40 million years old found in amber from Goethe's collection
A fossilised ant has been found in amber from the collection of the poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Its age is approximately 40 million years. The ant proved to be a representative of the extinct species Ctenobethylus goepperti. A black fly and a fungus gnat were also found in the
Archive · Faith · Moscow · Observations · Heritage
Bolshevik firing position in the bell tower of a church on Ostozhenka in 1917
A barricade set up in the autumn of 1917 across Ostozhenka, by the Church of the Resurrection of the Word. In the bell tower of the church is a Bolshevik firing point. This is dreadful not only as a fact of civil war but as a symbol. A bell tower,
Books · Rome · Humour
Caesar replied with amusement, on seeing the decrepit aspect of one weary and broken soldier of his guard, who had come to ask for leave in order to die: "So you suppose that you are still alive?"
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The January 1929 Cover of Vogue
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Hall with a timber roof and a chequered marble floor
Archaeology · Architecture · Faith · London · Heritage
This year Sarah Mullally will formally take up the office of Archbishop of Canterbury, becoming not only the first woman to hold it but also the first occupant of the palace since its recent reconstruction
Lambeth Palace in London, for eight centuries the residence of the Archbishops of Canterbury, has been restored for the first time in 70 years. The £40 million reconstruction was devoted to the restoration and conservation of the building's historic elements. The palace serves as the archbishop's
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When You Have Graduated from the Faculty of Mass Expectations
Architecture · Moscow · Humour
The Ryugyong Hotel Is Right Here at Home
The Piramida residential complex by Akademicheskaya metro station
Architecture · Heritage · Society · Saint Petersburg
UNESCO mission arrives in Saint Petersburg to inspect the historic centre
A UNESCO World Heritage Centre mission has arrived in Saint Petersburg to inspect one of the largest sites on the UNESCO World Heritage List, the “Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg”. The previous visit of this kind took place in 2018. In Saint Petersburg a single site is under UNESCO protection: