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This photograph by Rustam Mukhametzyanov is titled "A Tatar Woman's Farewell"
1984, a send-off to the army in a Tatar village.
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I read that the museum of tiny Martha's Vineyard, off Cape Cod in Massachusetts, is returning to Hawaii a canoe, a pestle for pounding baked taro root, a grass skirt and a piece of tapa, the traditional unwoven cloth made from tree bark…
I read that the museum of tiny Martha's Vineyard, off Cape Cod in Massachusetts, is returning to Hawaii a canoe, a pestle for pounding baked taro root, a grass skirt and a piece of tapa, the traditional unwoven cloth made from tree bark, which the indigenous peoples of
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Thirteen vessels 4,500 years old found in north-eastern Poland
Thirteen vessels 4,500 years old have been found in north-eastern Poland. Nine of them bear chemical traces of fermentation: lactic, acetic and levulinic acids, the by-products of yeasts and bacteria, and biomarkers of wheat and barley, fruit and resins. The researchers from the University of Warsaw call
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Charming Shoes Made by the Craftsmen of the Southern Ute Tribe, Living in South-Western Colorado
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Construction crews building Trump's border wall have damaged part of a Native American archaeological complex in Arizona at least a thousand years old
The Las Playas Intaglio is a sacred geoglyph in the shape of a fish, laid out on the desert surface in the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge in south-western Arizona. The full length of the figure is about 83 metres. The contractor's heavy construction machinery ran across
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From the famous Prigov: “Just stepped out of the bath, and already I remember nothing”
From the famous Prigov: “Just stepped out of the bath, and already I remember nothing.” A month is built much the same way. So let me propose recalling the main things from April's publications in the digest. 🎭 At the Taganka Theatre, Alexander Zolotovitsky has staged “Three Sisters”, in
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Gibraltar is home to Europe's only wild monkeys: Barbary macaques, about 230 of them
Gibraltar is home to Europe's only wild monkeys: Barbary macaques, about 230 of them. Tourists feed them ice cream, crisps and bread, despite a fine of £4,000. Yes, Gibraltar is a British territory, disputed by Spain. A recent study records that in response to this diet the
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In Mexico, during construction of the $8 billion Mexico City–Querétaro high-speed railway, 16 rock paintings and petroglyphs were discovered along its route
In Mexico, during construction of the $8 billion Mexico City–Querétaro high-speed railway, 16 rock paintings and petroglyphs were discovered along its route. It was then decided to move the route, so as to save the site of the rock images from destruction. The finds belong to two eras.
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Women gathering Siberian berries on the River Biryusa, a tributary of the Angara
Women gathering Siberian berries on the River Biryusa, a tributary of the Angara. Near the village of Lugovaya in Krasnoyarsk Krai, 1990
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Engraving of the funeral procession of the kings of Tonkin, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, "Six Voyages Made by Him in Turkey, Persia and the Indies", Paris, 1677, with the supplement "Continuation of the Voyages", 1679
Jean-Baptiste Tavernier was the son of a map engraver, became a dealer in precious stones and from 1623 crossed the road from Paris to Persia, and onward into India, six times. He traded at the courts of the Great Mughals and brought back from India a diamond that later
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Yesterday we read the verse of Apollon Korinfsky; today let us see what he looked like
Yesterday we read the verse of Apollon Korinfsky; today let us see what he looked like. The photograph, from 1914, shows Apollon Korinfsky with his family on holiday. Apollon Apollonovich Korinfsky was born in 1868 in Simbirsk and died in 1937 in Tver, in exile, by then quite an elderly
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In days of old the hero Svyatogor, Sensing in himself a presumptuous strength, In an ill hour resolved with his hand To lift up and overturn the universe
And on his swift steed He rode out on a considerable journey, Riding to seek the pull of the earth, He sees a mountain far off, unlike any other... "Can it be here?!" And with his whip he struck The horse with his mighty hand, The horse flew