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Colleagues at Vox medii aevi announce the publication of the book "Parnassian Mockingbird"

Colleagues at Vox medii aevi have announced the publication of the book "Parnassian Mockingbird. Tales from the History of World Culture" and shared excerpts from the section "Monsters All Around Us Sit", on superstitions, omens and folk demonology.

Round miniature of a hand from the clouds holding a red heart on a thread above a river and town, inscribed Non habet fundum.

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Miniature of a heart from Jacob Hoefnagel's 1634 book in the British Museum collection

This has no end. From the book Gloria Crocodilus of 1634 by the Flemish artist Jacob Hoefnagel, with 82 allegorical miniatures. From the collection of the British Museum

Books · Observations · Humour

A short remark of approval addressed to the English

The first edition of the academic dictionary of 1735 indicated that, under the word "Angliya" (England), the words "anglinsky" and "aglichanin" were the norm. Well, it doesn't sound bad, DEAR AGLICHANE!

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...As best I can put it, I cannot find the word: Not quite ill, not quite well, but so... neither one thing nor the other... as though not herself, She says to her husband: "Listen, my life, I need a new outfit for the holiday: Pray buy a turban from Mada

The poem "The Fashionable Wife" by the Russian sentimentalist poet Ivan Ivanovich Dmitriev (1760-1837) appeared in three versions during his lifetime. And three times the form of the adjective "English" changed in it. In the first, in 1792, we read: "And from her it&

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Not a Bad Berth at the Moscow Bookshop

Geography · Books · Science · Nature

Dutch origin of the words sluice and dam and land drainage in the Netherlands

The words "sluice" and "dam" exist in many languages of the world, and they came from Dutch, as did certain other hydraulic terms such as "polder" and "crane". The concepts owe their wide diffusion to the invention of land-drainage technologies and

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Italy to buy Umberto Eco's library from his family and give it to the University of Bologna

The Italian state will acquire Umberto Eco's library from his family and hand it over to the University of Bologna. Almost five years have passed since the death of the writer and philosopher. Italy's Ministry of Culture has signed an agreement with the scholar's

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The concept of punishment in the 1930 Small Soviet Encyclopedia and in criminal law today

The Small Soviet Encyclopaedia of 1930, in its article "Punishment", offers, besides the definition, a rather colourful gloss:. "bourgeois 'justice' still makes use of the doctrine that punishment, being retribution for guilt, 'atones' for it, although the class task of the capitalist criminal

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Marietta Chudakova: Incomparable All the Same

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Anatomical Pamphlet, 1559

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Mockingbird on Ozon's bestseller lists 😊 Most gratifying

Books · Moscow · Society

Functions of the Book Chamber transferred to the Russian State Library

The Russian State Library is to receive the functions of the Book Chamber. Until now, the Russian Book Chamber has been a branch of ITAR-TASS. The document has been signed by Mishustin.