Name: Poblamiento del Continente Americano
ISBN: 978-9929-687-90-5

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So long as the contented citizen May sleep without fear, And children, free subjects, May order their lives by their own thoughts, Enjoy nature, Be everywhere adorned by learning, And sing Thy charms <..> So long as Thou grantest freedom to all, And dost

From Karamzin's spiritual ode «To Mercy», addressed to Catherine II. A good thought, and a sound one: so long as the contented citizen may sleep without fear, and children, free subjects, may order their lives by their own thoughts, so long as Thou grantest freedom to all and

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The President of France complained in his book that he had to press the buttons on a telephone himself

It seems that Nicolas Sarkozy is a Zoomer. In his now much-discussed book, the former President of France writes some quite astonishing things. For instance, that to make a telephone call he had to "dial no fewer than ten digits, each of which is a code required to

Detail of an icon showing a balding bearded saint in blue and brown robes against a golden background.

Faith · Books

Apostle Paul and his Epistle to the Galatians, chapter 6, verse 9

Let us not grow weary in doing good, for in due season we shall reap, if we do not lose heart. The Epistle of the Apostle Paul to the Galatians, 6:9

Art · Books · Observations · Humour

Chagall had no memory at all of painting this work when a photograph of it was put in front of him

Chagall had no memory at all of painting this work when a photograph of it was put in front of him. He looked at it and thought: respectable people, they have an interest in the matter, I shan't disappoint them. He agreed, they say: it looks like me,

Black-and-white photograph of a smiling elderly woman in a hat, wearing a pearl necklace and a dark jacket.

The East · Books · People

British writer Dame Freya Stark, who lived from 1893 to 1993

Tolerance cannot afford to have anything in common with the mistaken notion that evil may be turned into good. The British writer Dame Freya Stark (1893-1993)

Black-and-white photograph of an elderly woman in a headscarf, bent over and leaning on a stick in the grass near village buildings.

Books

Louis-Ferdinand Céline and his book “Journey to the End of the Night”

I knew only poor people, that is, people whose death interests no one. Journey to the End of the Night, Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Books · Museums · Heritage · Society · Paris

Every Month Brings New Alarming Incidents at the Louvre

At the end of November, a serious accident occurred in the library of the Louvre's Department of Egyptian Antiquities: at about 21:00 on 27 November, old pipes in the suspended ceiling burst. Dirty water flooded the rooms, damaging some 400 rare books, including their antique bindings. The

Books · Moscow · Observations · Reportage · Humour

The intellectual literature fair at Gostiny Dvor and buying books with no intention of reading them

Shall I tell you what a fair of intellectual literature is? City dwellers, worn out by bustle, obligations and a dusk that begins at four in the afternoon, come to Gostiny Dvor to sigh a little in the queue at the entrance, jostle by the cloakroom and, at last, plunge

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A Good Poet, Alexander Volovik

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Tolkien's own illustrations for "Letters from Father Christmas", the series of letters he wrote to his children every year

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Does the Young Maiden Tremble, or the Young Wench Shake?

Mikhail Alexandrovich Dmitriev, an old Russian writer of the Slavophile circle, now almost forgotten, recalls the Church Slavonic classes of his university years in this way. Professor of Slavonic philology Matvey Gavrilov proposed that, wherever possible, Russian words in speech be exchanged for Slavonic ones, and the result was handsome:

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And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth

Revelation 5:6