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The Baltimore Ravens take their name from Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven”
The Baltimore Ravens are the only professional sports club named after a work of classic literature. The Ravens take their name from the poem "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, who lived in Baltimore. The mystical, enigmatic plot of "The Raven" tells of a bird that
Books · Observations · Science · Mores · Humour
Character traits by hair type according to a book of 1765
Reading a person's character from the look of the hair, after a book of 1765. To my mind, it all holds together, and the science is the more exact for being ancient White hair shows a cold nature. If the hair goes grey before its time, it signifies
Faith · The East · Art · Books
"A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter"
"A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter." And the camels galled, sore-footed, refractory, Lying down in the melting snow. There
NB! · Cinema · Books · Pop Culture · Humour
The French Olympic Team at the Opening of the Montreal Olympic Games in 1976 and the Beauxbatons Academy Delegation at the Goblet of Fire Games at Hogwarts
Books · Education · Society
If it is good to know how to use men as they are, it is far better still to make them what one needs them to be; the most absolute authority is that which penetrates into the inmost being of a man and exerts no less influence…
From Jean-Jacques Rousseau's article “Discourse on Political Economy” in the Encyclopédie
Cinema · Books · Moscow · Observations
Vladimir Mirzoev on the new screen adaptation of Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment”
It is no accident that Dostoevsky tops the IMDb ranking of the "100 Greatest Authors of All Time": he remains not merely one of the most published and most read writers, but also the most adapted for the screen. But why does it matter to go on adapting
NB! · Architecture · Books · Moscow · People
The writer Sergey Durylin, Pasternak's teacher, built a house on a foundation of stones from a chapel of the Moscow Kremlin, with the help of his friend the architect Shchusev, who designed Lenin's Mausoleum
The writer Sergey Durylin, Pasternak's teacher, built a house on a foundation of stones from a chapel of the Moscow Kremlin, with the help of his friend the architect Shchusev, who designed Lenin's Mausoleum. Later a mail kukuruznik (a small Soviet biplane) crashed onto this house.
Books · Science · Nature · Ethnography
There are many signs of the harsh frosts to come, but the surest is clouds that form fiery rings or even columns about the setting sun, making a kind of phantom city, or blazing pyramid-shaped rays that rise from the sun into the heavens…
There are many signs of the harsh frosts to come, but the surest is clouds that form fiery rings or even columns about the setting sun, making a kind of phantom city, or blazing pyramid-shaped rays that rise from the sun into the heavens. And when these fiery crimson
NB! · Art · Books · Observations · Humour
I think we can all agree that dwarves cannot possibly be so much larger than hobbits as they are in this illustration
Books · Society · Paris
Edition printed in Paris by F. Buisson in 1797, Year V of the Republic
The new reckoning from the founding of the First French Republic in September 1792, illustrated from the book trade:. printed in Paris in Year V of the Republic, or in the year 1797 from the Nativity of Christ.
Books · Moscow · Observations
Lev Rubinstein’s 2000 collection “Domashneye muzitsirovaniye” and several of its pages
Realised I had never heard or read any poems by the well-known Moscow poet and essayist Lev Rubinstein, found at home a 2000 collection of his writings, "Domestic Music-Making", with a bookmark: a 2006 Madrid metro ticket at page 43. There were no poems in the