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

Faith · Books · Society

The stranger who is among you shall mount above you higher and higher, and you shall go down lower and lower; he shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail

Deuteronomy 28:43-44

NB! · Books · Science · Education

Euler diagrams showing which identical letters are shared by the Greek, Latin and Cyrillic alphabets

Books · Moscow · Education · Society

Karion Istomin's illustrated Primer, published at the Print Yard in 1694

Presidential adviser Yelena Yampolskaya proposes abandoning the "Azbuka" and calling it the "Bukvar" Well then, I propose that we return to the ancient Primer of Karion Istomin, hieromonk of the Chudov Monastery in Moscow, writer and court poet, who produced the first illustrated Russian alphabet book.

Books · Observations · Humour

“The yearling fillies pretend to be grown up and staid, and only rarely do they skip about or join the merry companies

“The yearling fillies pretend to be grown up and staid, and only rarely do they skip about or join the merry companies. They graze decorously, arching their swan-like, close-cropped necks, and, as though they too had tails, they flick their little brooms. Just like the grown-up ones,

NB! · Books · Humour

A Brief Summary of Any Masterpiece of World Literature

Books · Monarchies · Observations · Education

A Navigator to the Publications That Appeared on the Channel in May

A navigator to the publications that appeared on the channel in May. This month we restored vivid events of the past, discussed pressing problems, got to grips with terminology, and much else besides. Brigitte Bardot on fame, modern cinema and feminism 📌 Part 1 | Part 2 The menu of Leo XIV&

Archive · Books · Monarchies · Paris · People

Marie Antoinette on her ceremonial entry into Paris, in a letter to her mother of 14 June 1770

My dear mama, on Tuesday there was a festival I shall never forget. We made our solemn entry into Paris. As for honours, we received all the honours that can be imagined, but it was not these that touched me most. What truly impressed me were the poor, who expressed

Books · Observations

Everyone, I suppose, thinks: "Oblomov? Certainly not!

Everyone, I suppose, thinks: "Oblomov? Certainly not! How could one possibly?" But sooner or later there comes a time to admit, in silence: I am Oblomov

NB! · Books · Mores · Humour

A family in which the husband is a devotee of Cortázar and the wife a devotee of Borges

Archive · Books · Heritage · Rome

Library digitises over 18,000 of its 82,000 manuscripts, available on DigiVatLib

The Vatican Apostolic Library Embarks on a Large-Scale Project to Restore and Digitise More Than 80,000 Ancient Manuscripts. The library's collection comprises more than 82,000 manuscripts and 1.6 million printed books, among them more than 8,000 incunabula, books printed before 1501. Its holdings

Architecture · Books · Moscow · Observations · Reportage

Only in Moscow could this happen: you stroll along a boulevard of an evening and find yourself at an open meeting with a writer

Only in Moscow could this happen: you stroll along a boulevard of an evening and find yourself at an open meeting with a writer. Yesterday that is precisely what befell me. Passing the monument to Sholokhov, I heard Alexandr Tsypkin say something like "what if the cultural capital is

Archive · Books · Moscow · Saint Petersburg

Suvorin's bookshop on Nevsky Prospect and his publishing business from 1872

Stocktaking at the Bookshop of the A. Suvorin Partnership on Nevsky Prospect in Saint Petersburg in the early 1900s. Photograph by Karl Bulla. In Moscow, Suvorin's shop stood on Nikolskaya Street and later on Neglinnaya Street. Suvorin took up publishing in 1872 with the issue of a universal