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On 12 March the 12th season of the Open Studios project began at the Vinzavod Centre for Contemporary Art
On 12 March the 12th season of the Open Studios project began at the Vinzavod Centre for Contemporary Art. The participants of the new season are the artists Pavel Grishin, Katya Zhilina, Alina Zolotykh, Karolina Roslyak, Polina Rukavichkina, Tamara Serdtseva, Varvara Silantyeva, Lena Solovyeva, Andrey Soul and Maria Stadnik. Open
Archive · Books · Education · Society
Who is it that always tells us: be prepared!?
Who is it that always tells us: be prepared!? Who is our teacher in all times? Long live Comrade Stalin, long live May Day! From a German-language textbook for the 3rd and 4th forms, 1946, by Witfogel, Monigetti and Petrenko
NB! · Archive · Education · Humour
The 1950s
The 1950s. Students of an American university whose name may not be mentioned
Observations · Education · Society · Humour
As They Used to Say at School: Now a Question to Catch You Out
By way of illustrating the fruits of the finest education in the world, after ten or twenty years of the nosediving standards of television and the media
Faith · Mores · Education · People
The Shoes of the Devil upon Two Sticks, and Louis-Philippe Supporting a Barely Upright Talleyrand
As you can see, old Talleyrand, author of the remark "Whole nations would be horrified if they knew what petty men rule over them", is wearing the orthopaedic footwear of his age. At the age of 4, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand was punished and sat upon a chest
Art · Education · Society · People · Humour
The Best So Far on the Subject
The young Napoleon Bonaparte at his studies in Brienne (Jean Onfroy de Bréville, 1910). And the not-so-young Trump, who long ago stopped learning anything new.
Moscow · Science · Education · Palaeontology
Student, step out faster, for oysters wait for us in the field, and the Jurassic ammonite waits for us in the field, the Vraconian belemnite, the Lutetian nummulite
The opening of a palaeontological song composed by students of the Moscow Institute of Geological Prospecting named after Ordzhonikidze in the 1950s. Oysters: massive, rounded-pentagonal calcareous shells. Ammonite: the shell of a cephalopod mollusc. Belemnite: an arrowhead-like carbonate formation inside the body of the eponymous two-gilled predator.
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Study or Amusements
Study or amusements. 1608. A choice for which we have failed to prepare in 400 years
Archive · Observations · Education
Have you ever been expelled from university?
Have you ever been expelled from university? I have. What stings most, by common consent, is when it happens over some useless, off-profile, run-of-the-mill subject. As in the case of our former student, a fellow traveller from 1844. A man who had shown a sound knowledge
NB! · Moscow · Education · Humour
The Magnificent Family Tree of Bauman University
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