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Chatsworth, one of Britain's best-known country houses and seat of the Dukes of Devonshire, the Cavendish family, since 1549, launches a scheme of free admission through libraries

Aristocracy · Books · London · Museums · Observations · Society

Chatsworth, one of Britain's best-known country houses and seat of the Dukes of Devonshire, the Cavendish family, since 1549, launches a scheme of free admission through libraries

The mechanics of the project are as follows: a library reader in Derbyshire borrows a "community card" just as he would borrow a book, for a week, free of charge. The card gives entry to the house, the garden, the farm and the playground for a group of

By Alexandr Radayev
What if the answer to the question "why did Christ appear only to Mary Magdalene, the myrrh-bearing women, the apostles, the disciples and more than 500 brethren, and not to everyone at all, in order to prove His Resurrection" is already given in the para

Faith · Books · Observations

What if the answer to the question "why did Christ appear only to Mary Magdalene, the myrrh-bearing women, the apostles, the disciples and more than 500 brethren, and not to everyone at all, in order to prove His Resurrection" is already given in the para

and beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence. Then he said: I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to

By Alexandr Radayev
Among the presidential instructions following the meeting of the Council for Culture there turned up a touching one:

Cinema · Books · Observations · Society · Humour

Among the presidential instructions following the meeting of the Council for Culture there turned up a touching one:

The Government of the Russian Federation, jointly with the Ministry of Justice of Russia, is to consider the question of drafting regulatory legal acts aimed at granting cultural organisations the right to use works created by outstanding Russian authors in cases of unjustified refusal by rights holders to grant such

By Alexandr Radayev
At the St Petersburg International Legal Forum, Deputy Minister of Culture Zhanna Alexeyeva announced that a closed repository for literature of a "destructive nature" is being created at the Lenin Library, and called it a "spetskhran"

Archive · Books · Moscow · Observations · Society

At the St Petersburg International Legal Forum, Deputy Minister of Culture Zhanna Alexeyeva announced that a closed repository for literature of a "destructive nature" is being created at the Lenin Library, and called it a "spetskhran"

First of all, it must be explained at once that the spetskhran has existed in the Lenin Library all along; nobody abolished this department with the collapse of the USSR, it was merely the regime of access and the principle by which it is filled that changed. Pornographic and extremist

By Alexandr Radayev
Pliny the Elder writes that Caesar the Dictator stretched awnings over the whole Roman Forum and over the Sacred Way, from his own house up to the Capitol, and that the spectacle was judged more wondrous than the gladiatorial combats themselves

Archaeology · Architecture · Books · Rome

Pliny the Elder writes that Caesar the Dictator stretched awnings over the whole Roman Forum and over the Sacred Way, from his own house up to the Capitol, and that the spectacle was judged more wondrous than the gladiatorial combats themselves

Pliny the Elder writes that Caesar the Dictator stretched awnings over the whole Roman Forum and over the Sacred Way, from his own house up to the Capitol, and that the spectacle was judged more wondrous than the gladiatorial combats themselves. Fabric awnings against the sun, vela in Latin, were

By Alexandr Radayev
The theoretical physicist and co-creator of loop quantum gravity Carlo Rovelli has published a book not about physics but about the looming danger of nuclear catastrophe

Books · Science · Society · People

The theoretical physicist and co-creator of loop quantum gravity Carlo Rovelli has published a book not about physics but about the looming danger of nuclear catastrophe

The theoretical physicist and co-creator of loop quantum gravity Carlo Rovelli has published a book not about physics but about the looming danger of nuclear catastrophe. The book is called "85 Seconds to Midnight: A Physicist's Case Against Rearmament". The title refers to the Doomsday

By Alexandr Radayev
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