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When the British General Allenby accepted the surrender of Jerusalem in December 1917, he entered the city on foot through the Jaffa Gate, saying that he would not ride his horse into a city into which the Lord had ridden on a donkey
When the British General Allenby accepted the surrender of Jerusalem in December 1917, he entered the city on foot through the Jaffa Gate, saying that he would not ride his horse into a city into which the Lord had ridden on a donkey. Allenby was the first Christian to capture
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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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Pisa Cathedral, occupying the most conspicuous site in Pisa, is unfortunately usually eclipsed by the Leaning Tower and attracts little attention
Pisa Cathedral, occupying the most conspicuous site in Pisa, is unfortunately usually eclipsed by the Leaning Tower and attracts little attention. The building is, nevertheless, extraordinarily interesting. And most interesting of all is the eleventh-century griffin atop a column on the cathedral's apse. How did it come
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Punishments in the Ottoman Empire of the Sixteenth Century
From Pictures of Turkish Folk Life, illustrations by Heindrich Hendrovsky
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Although it is a fallacy, Ridley Scott decided to use the myth of Napoleon firing cannon at the Sphinx in order to show more concisely in the film that Egypt had been taken
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As for Vladimir Putin's speech today at the Cultural Forum in Saint Petersburg, besides his remark about transformers, I noticed the quotation to the effect that "cultural figures build bridges between peoples – this is a mission…
Let me remind you that terrorists blew up the arch, reconstructed by the French in the 1930s, in 2015. In April this year a visualisation of the Russian project for restoring the monument was presented at the Hermitage Theatre; it was developed at the Centre for Rescue Archaeology together with
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The Sarcophagus of Alexander the Great in Constantinople
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"Two oxen, yoked to a cart, were climbing a steep road
"Two oxen, yoked to a cart, were climbing a steep road. Several Georgians accompanied the cart. "Where are you from?" I asked them. "From Tehran." "What are you carrying?" "Griboyedov." It was the body of the murdered Griboyedov, which was being
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You do not yet know these people: you will see that it will come to knives
Alexander Sergeyevich Griboyedov to Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, on the Persians, on the eve of his last journey to Tehran
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An Unexpected Subject for Salvador Dalí: The Walls of Babylon
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The First Award for Women in the History of Persia: the Order of the Sun for Ladies, نشان آفتاب, Nishan-i-Aftab, Established by Naser al-Din, Fourth Shah of Iran of the Qajar Dynasty, in 1873
The first award for women in the history of Persia, the Order of the Sun for ladies, نشان آفتاب, Nishan-i-Aftab, was established by the fourth Shah of Iran of the Qajar dynasty, Naser al-Din, in 1873. The badge and the star of the order are made in