Today, as on every second Saturday of November since 1215, the Lord Mayor's Show was held in the City of London

Today, as on every second Saturday of November since 1215, the Lord Mayor's Show was held in the City of London. One of the oldest civic processions in Europe brings together the most ancient guilds, municipal services, the military, diplomats and ordinary citizens, and is devoted to the election by 108 guilds of the Lord Mayor, the venerable ruler of the ceremonial county of the City. The right to elect the Lord Mayor was granted to the people of London by John Lackland. As for a mayor of the modern city of London, one appeared only under Elizabeth II, in 2000; before that, no such office existed.

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

Today, as on every second Saturday of November since 1215, the Lord Mayor's Show was held in the City of London

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s