Name: Poblamiento del Continente Americano
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Arnold Toynbee spent more than 25 years writing "A Study of History"

Arnold Toynbee spent more than 25 years writing "A Study of History". The work, which describes the rise and fall of civilisations, gave us the remark that civilisations die from suicide, not murder. Toynbee maintains that the fate of civilisations is determined by their response to the challenges

Books · Observations · Society

Progress Is the Mother of All Problems

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Faith · Art · Books · Museums · Paris · Nature

At the exhibition "The Medieval Bestiary" at the Musée de Chantilly: a Flemish manuscript of the late fifteenth century, the Mirror of Human Salvation, with a scene of the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise

On the wall of the Earthly Paradise sits a Peacock, which in the Middle Ages was associated with the sin of pride, the very pride that made Adam and Eve think they could be equal to God?

Coming Up · Books · Moscow

The Russian State Library to hold Biblionight at the Pashkov House

On 20 April, Russia's libraries will hold the 13th Library Night. The Lenin Library will, as is its custom, throw open its doors; this time the Russian State Library invites guests to Pashkov House, where the speakers will include Tatyana Tolstaya, Robert Garayev, Alexander Tsypkin, the actors Leonid

NB! · Books · Science · People

AST-Nonfiction Signs Contract with Heirs of Manhattan Project Director Robert Oppenheimer to Publish His Works in Russia

Books · Heritage · Paris · Pop Culture

Chanel kept Karl Lagerfeld's personal library intact after his death

Karl Lagerfeld's Art Library in Paris, on the 7th Floor of 7 Rue de Lille. Lagerfeld's personal library consists of tens of thousands of books, gathered and arranged by Karl himself. The library occupies a room beneath a large glass skylight. In the adjoining space was

NB! · Books · Observations · Humour

Came to the Bookshop to Look at My Beloved Self

Archive · Books · Monarchies · Observations · Saint Petersburg

Incorrect date of Peter and Catherine's marriage in Gerakov's 1807 book

I have found a most ludicrous discrepancy in the text of Gavriil Gerakov's book "Memorable Events in Russian History from the Birth of Peter the Great to His Death" Gerakov writes that Peter married Catherine (Alexeyevna, that is, Marta) of the Skavronsky family in May 1707,

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Lines from Ivan Pnin’s 1805 poem “Man” on the condition of the slave

In what dread expanse I behold The Slave apart from Man, One, like the sun in a clear sky, The Other as gloomy as the earth. One is everything, the other a nullity, If only he had known his slavish duty, Had questioned nature; had examined Who is to blame

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Anatoly Mariengof's poem about 1917 and the break with the past

Each day of ours is a new chapter of the Bible. Each page will be Great to thousands of generations. We are those of whom they will say: "The lucky ones, they lived in 1917." And you are still wailing: we are lost! Still squandering your whimpers! Foolish

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Apollon Maykov on happiness and duty in his 1889 poem “V chem schastye”

What is happiness?.. On life's path To go wherever your duty bids, To know no enemies, to measure no obstacles, To love, to hope and to believe. Literal translation Apollon Maykov, "What Is Happiness", 1889

The East · Books · Nature

When you are old, Kala Nag, some rich Rajah will buy you from the Government for your height and good manners, and then you will have nothing to do; you will only wear golden earrings in your ears, a golden howdah (a kind of saddle) on your back and cloth

When you are old, Kala Nag, some rich Rajah will buy you from the Government for your height and good manners, and then you will have nothing to do; you will only wear golden earrings in your ears, a golden howdah (a kind of saddle) on your back and cloth