Museums · Mores · Education
A small town museum in Canada has posted a photograph of the names Benny and Linda, carved into a school desk. The author of the inscription replied in the comments and told the story of his love. Benny fell in love with Linda Nowicki in the fourth grade and resolved
Architecture · The East · Moscow · Education
Masonic Moscow. A six-pointed star, blazing torches and a medallion with a three-faced figure in the bas-reliefs on the façade of the Kazakov building of Moscow University (photos 1, 2), rebuilt in 1817 under the direction of Domenico, or Dementy Ivanovich, Gilardi. Today the Kazakov building houses
NB! · Archive · Faith · Art · Education
Men playing ball in the courtyard of the Fulda seminary, the oldest school in Germany, founded in the monastery of Fulda in the 8th century, that is, more than 1,200 years ago. Drawing from an album amicorum of the early 17th century
Books · Observations · Education
This year's text for the "Total Dictation" will be written by the author Marina Moskvina. I am scarcely acquainted with her work, but I remembered a charming story that contained this sentence: "Every Saturday I hoped that Dad would stay at home, that we would
Architecture · Moscow · Heritage · Education
Young Sechenov students celebrate the Day of Knowledge in a world-famous monument of Soviet avant-garde architecture, the Club of the Kauchuk Factory designed by the architect Konstantin Melnikov. A decade-long history of neglect, which had brought this monument of Constructivism to a dilapidated state, ended with restoration
Books · Monarchies · Mores · Education
Thus a French Speculum Principis of the early sixteenth century contains the counsel not to "speak against the sun" and not to "make water facing the sun"
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London · Observations · Education · Society
SOAS University of London, one of the world's leading institutions devoted to the study of Asia and Africa, has proposed to "decolonise" the philosophy curriculum in schools and universities. In place of the ancient and classical philosophy of Aristotle, Socrates, Kant and Russell, whom it has
Archaeology · Archive · Science · Education · People
Newton's alchemical laboratory in his Cambridge years stood in the garden of Trinity College, between the chapel and the college gate. Its exact location is unknown, but the approximate site was established by excavations, in which waste from chemical experiments was found. It is known that Newton devoted
NB! · Monarchies · Observations · Education · People
Crown Princess Elisabeth of Belgium, Duchess of Brabant, eldest daughter of King Philippe and Queen Mathilde, born in 2001, has graduated from Oxford. How quickly other people's princesses grow up
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Architecture · Moscow · Observations · Heritage · Education
In Filippovsky Lane the walls of the former Lepyoshkin Student Hostel of the Imperial Moscow University (1884), which now houses the Theatre House "Old Arbat", have been stripped of their plaster. The most interesting thing here, besides the vivid demonstration of the lost technologies of the past, is