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Risen Christ leaves the tomb past sleeping guards in a medieval miniature
The Resurrection of Christ from the Sherborne Missal, 1399–1407. Christ leaves the tomb while the guards set over it sleep
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"I," said he to him, "am Hermes, the immortal messenger of the gods; Pallas Athena, your protectress in heaven, has sent me
"I," said he to him, "am Hermes, the immortal messenger of the gods; Pallas Athena, your protectress in heaven, has sent me. The king wishes to destroy you, but you shall not perish if you remember my words." And he told him what it was useful
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As for that amusing piece of fan fiction ranking the tallest buildings on Earth, in which the Burj Khalifa in Dubai falls slightly short of the tower of Barad-dûr in Mordor, let me remind you that this is nothing more than conjecture: nowhere in the text
And if, like the author of this infographic, you are working from the visual impressions of Peter Jackson's film adaptation, then one must not forget the Tower of Ecthelion on the uppermost tier of Minas Tirith, or Orthanc, for instance. Still, the comparison of the aesthetics of the
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Alexander Molok on German foreign policy and a thousand years of attacks on Europe
A Thousand Years of War, War Without Any Particular Cause. So it turns out the Germans have been terrorising the whole of Europe for a thousand years. "The seizure and plundering of foreign lands, the enslavement and extermination of other peoples have from time immemorial formed the essence and
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Abstract painting by Natalia Turnova dated 2007
Private. Natalia Turnova, 2007
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What do you make of the road signs in a book of 1400?
What do you make of the road signs in a book of 1400? I think they are magnificent
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Explosive Devices of the Fifteenth Century
Explosive devices of the fifteenth century. From the 1405 book on military technology by the German engineer Konrad Kyeser
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And God said, Let there be light
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
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Cholera aboard the Melpomene at Toulon in 1833 in Giono's novel and Vernet's painting
In the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Marseille hangs Horace Vernet's "Cholera on Board the Melpomene", painted in 1835 for the Board of Health, which had been assembling a collection on the theme of epidemics for its council chamber since the 1730s. The events aboard the
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What a Beauty!
A collection of poems by Bulat Okudzhava in German translation, with colour silkscreen prints by the artist Maurice Goetze. The book was published in 1991 in an edition of only 100 copies
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Who Else Suffers From the Same Ruinous Addiction, Comrades?
Who else suffers from the same ruinous addiction, comrades? Shall we all run, in a body, to a specialist? From the programme of the twenty-fifth Non/fiction International Intellectual Literature Fair for 30 November. Leaving aside the wording of the theme, one must admit that all the participants in
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Poems by Alexei Kruchenykh
Illustration by Olga Rozanova Shown at the Zotov Centre at the exhibition "Presnya: An Exhibition of My Memory", marking the anniversary of the centre's founding ❤️