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The Magi and the Virgin Mary with the Infant Jesus in Her Arms beneath the Star of Bethlehem, Set in Diamonds
The Magi and the Virgin Mary with the Infant Jesus in her arms beneath the Star of Bethlehem, set in diamonds. Pendant, 15th century
NB! · Moscow · Science · Society
Dear colleagues, this announcement concerns all of us and the staff of our friendly institutes, especially those located on Vavilov, Lyapunov and Fotiyeva Streets and on Leninsky Prospekt
Dear colleagues, this announcement concerns all of us and the staff of our friendly institutes, especially those located on Vavilov, Lyapunov and Fotiyeva Streets and on Leninsky Prospekt
Archaeology · Ethnography
The Chinchorro mummification technique in present-day Chile and Peru
The Chinchorro people, who lived in what is now Chile and Peru, built no tombs, pyramids or even simple graves, which makes reconstructing their burial process extremely difficult. But the Chinchorro process of mummification is impressive. They removed the skin from the body, separated the muscles from the bones, and
NB! · Archaeology · Science · Ethnography
Chilean scientists examine 15 mummies of the Chinchorro people, the world's oldest
Chilean scientists have examined 15 mummies of the Chinchorro people, who lived on the Pacific coast of South America from the 10th to the 3rd millennium BC. These mummies are the oldest on earth, and several thousand years older than the Egyptian ones.
NB! · Archive · In the Press · Geography · Society · Paris
The Novy Altaysky Luch of 15 Feb 1919 carries on a single page both the flooding of the Seine and the affairs of Semirechye: famine, cattle plague, arrests of the steppe intelligentsia
The Novy Altaysky Luch of 15 Feb 1919 carries on a single page both the flooding of the Seine and the affairs of Semirechye: famine, cattle plague, arrests of the steppe intelligentsia. The Bolsheviks, who had seemed to be calming down, have once more stepped up their terror
NB! · Archive · Geography · Paris · Nature
In 1919 the Seine Burst Its Banks and Flooded Half of Paris
NB! · Aristocracy · Monarchies
The title of Prince of Wales was first conferred upon the eldest son of Edward I, the future Edward II, born at Caernarfon Castle in 1284; ever since, the eldest royal son has by tradition become Prince of Wales
NB! · Faith · The East · Ethnography
This sleeve badge with a "swastika" was worn by commanders of the Kalmyk units of the Red Army's South-Eastern Front in 1918-20
This sleeve badge with a "swastika" was worn by commanders of the Kalmyk units of the Red Army's South-Eastern Front in 1918-20. Among Buddhists the symbol is called «lungtn, lungta», "whirlwind, vital energy"
NB! · Archive · Monarchies · People
Timofey Yashchik (1878-1946), Bodyguard of Empress Maria Feodorovna
Books · Monarchies · Observations · People
Leib Cossack Timofey Yashchik, escort of Maria Feodorovna from 1914, and his memoirs
Life Cossack Timofey Xenofontovich Yashchik escorted Maria Feodorovna by appointment of Nicholas II from 1914 until the last day of her life. He remained at her side after the Emperor's abdication, and after the death of the imperial family. It was Yashchik who was one of the men
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