New York · Education · People
The first performance took place in May 1926 and caused a sensation; before long the symphony was being played across the country and abroad, in Berlin, Philadelphia and New York. Thus the 19-year-old composer became known the world over.
NB! · Art · Monarchies · Museums · Education · People
Cosimo III de' Medici placed the Russian pensioner Ivan Nikitin in the academy of the painter Tommaso Redi. It was here that Nikitin painted a portrait of Peter I, who had sent him to study; the picture is in the collection of the Uffizi
Books · Monarchies · Observations · Education
A navigator to the publications that appeared on the channel in May. This month we restored vivid events of the past, discussed pressing problems, got to grips with terminology, and much else besides. Brigitte Bardot on fame, modern cinema and feminism 📌 Part 1 | Part 2 The menu of Leo XIV&
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It seems the Anglo-Saxons have finally surrendered. At any rate, they have certainly surrendered their language. The BBC website has a version in English, or, to put it as gently as possible, in its Afro-ghetto variety. Try reading any news item in this dialect. It is as though
Faith · Moscow · Education · Humour
The Bauman University student mailing list, as ever, is on top form
Science · Education · Society
Ella Stapleton, a student at Northeastern University, has demanded the return of $8,000 in tuition fees after discovering that her lecturer had used AI to produce teaching materials and prepare for classes, even though students are forbidden to use neural networks. The student noticed obvious signs of AI use
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Pope Leo XIV has started a Twitter account in Latin, and it is magnificent! A splendid step towards popularising the Latin language
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Giuseppe Soda, Professor at Bocconi University: "Our starting point is simple. Even in the Church, as in any human organisation, relationships matter. The more a person is connected, listens, and occupies a central place in the flow of information, the more likely he is to become a unifying figure.
Observations · Mores · Education · Society
At lectures on historical memory, to show how unstable this substance is, I sometimes ask the audience: do you know when your grandmother and grandfather were born? As a rule, people have only the vaguest notion, to say nothing of great-grandmothers and beyond. Those who know for certain are
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Because in the suffixes of the active present participles, that is, those formed with the suffixes -ushch (-yushch) / -ashch (-yashch), we write the letter u or yu if the participle is formed from a verb of the first conjugation, that is, one with the personal endings -u (-yu), -esh (-yosh)
Archive · Books · Education
A Soviet English textbook, 1953
Education · Society
The President has signed a law on entry to university from college without the Unified State Exam, a possibility that is now retained only for applicants to a related specialism. Until now, universities had the right to admit college graduates on the strength of their own internal entrance tests, regardless