The East - The Parnassian (Page 18)

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Among the ancient Egyptians there was a praiseworthy custom, that over the dead a strict judgement was held, as to how they had conducted their lives

Among the ancient Egyptians there was a praiseworthy custom, that over the dead a strict judgement was held, as to how they had conducted their lives. And if in all truth they found the honesty of their living, they deemed them worthy of a magnificent burial, lamented by all. But

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The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in a nineteenth-century painting and in a twenty-first-century photograph

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A man does not yet enjoy freedom from action when he does not begin what he ought to do, nor does he attain bliss from perfect inaction

A man does not yet enjoy freedom from action when he does not begin what he ought to do, nor does he attain bliss from perfect inaction. No one remains in inaction for a single minute. Every man is involuntarily compelled to act according to the principles native to his

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A 2,300-year-old ceremonial horse headdress found on the skeleton of a horse in the frozen tombs of Pazyryk in Siberia

Eight of the ten horses in the Pazyryk kurgan were arranged in two rows with their heads turned to the east, while two horses in the western part of the burial were oriented with their heads to the south. Collection of the State Hermitage Museum.

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A Few Words on the Tretyakov Gallery's Exhibition Plans

The Tretyakov Gallery will open the year with a retrospective of the artist Francisco Infante, "The Formula of Infinity". In spring the New Tretyakov will host the exhibition "The Road to the East", a project about the Russian artists who worked in Central Asia in the

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The woman Bishop of Stockholm has proposed that churches in her diocese remove images of the cross and install signs indicating the direction of Mecca

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The Bronze Horseman as Seen by Japanese Sailors Who Found Themselves in Russia in 1794

The illustration is found in the 11th scroll of the Japanese manuscript "Kankai ibun", or "Strange Tidings of the Seas Surrounding [the Earth]", compiled from the interrogations of sailors who were returned to Japan together with the Russian embassy in 1805. At the end of 1793

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I dream of a hat like the one worn by Ivan Palaiologos in the fresco in the Medici Palace

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Former President of Israel says Queen Elizabeth refused to admit Israelis to Buckingham Palace because she believed that "every Israeli is either a terrorist or the son of a terrorist"

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Naturally, the one Syrian refugee who actually is a doctor will not get into the EU

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Down with the Veil!

Down with the Veil! Wooden placard, 1920s, Central Asia

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