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The alleged erotic cabinet of an empress lacks any official confirmation
There is no official confirmation of this find, or indeed of the very possibility of such a cabinet. I have never come across a catalogue or a description of it either, nor even a printed mention in any serious source. Nevertheless, some of these objects have been photographed. Whether they
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Antique chair with patterned upholstery and a carved crest rail
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The 1928 Roerich Pact and German looting of Soviet cultural property
Destroyed by human error and restored by human hope. In international law, the history of the protection of cultural property begins in the nineteenth century: the Lieber Code, the Brussels Conference, the Hague Conventions and Declarations and, finally, the Roerich Pact, or Treaty on the Protection of Artistic and Scientific
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American soldiers at Neuschwanstein, where 21,000 works of art were brought from France
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A Word Was Put In for Terekhov, Too
A word was put in for Terekhov, too. Incidentally, an interesting manual for anyone wishing to find out something about their ancestors
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Whitworth's machine for sweeping dung and dirt from the streets was invented in the nineteenth century: a cart whose wheels drove brushes mounted on a lifting mechanism
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Horse censuses of 1882 and 1888 on the number and quality of horses in Russia
I would like to share a curious article on horse-breeding in the nineteenth century from the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopaedic Dictionary:. Of the approximately 60,456,000 horses in the world, namely 32,253,400 in Europe, 4,125,400 in Asia, 656,000 in Africa, 20,909,000
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This tortoise from the Michael Mahzor (Jewish codex of the early fourteenth century) may, oddly enough, correspond to the astronomical scorpion, Akrav, and relates to the prayer for rain
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Kurdish Poem About October in Latin Script from a Publication of the Same Years
For comparison: a Kurdish socialist poem in Latin script, from a publication of the same years. Here is Oktyabr, the soap of the proletariat, no less!
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On the Latinisation of the Turkic Languages: A Page from a Kurdish Children's Book Published in Armenia in the 1930s
On the Latinisation of the Turkic languages: a page from a Kurdish children's book published in Armenia in the 1930s. I have no idea what it means, but it reminded me of the Captain Second Rank in "Ivan Denisovich".
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Mandrake
Mandrake. Drawing from the Greek treatise "On Medicinal Substances". This copy dates from the 10th century, although the original was written by Pedanius Dioscorides in the 1st century AD and was copied for 1,500 years