Architecture · Mores · Rome · Humour
Benito Mussolini's Personal Gymnasium, the "Palestra del Duce", Designed by the Italian Architect Luigi Moretti
where, judging by the apparatus, the dictator trained, among other things, in hanging upside down
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Since 1891 the Snow Woman has somewhat lost her elegance
Archive · Books · Mores · People
Pushkin’s poem “The Death of Lucullus” and Uvarov’s designs on Sheremetev’s inheritance
Sergey Semyonovich Uvarov, who published works on archaeology and ancient Greek literature and rose to be President of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, was an exceedingly contradictory man. Who expects a scholar and thinker to be capable of foul deeds, spite, thieving and petty pilfering? Yet Solovyov recalls that there
Art · Books · Mores
In the hearts of men I have noticed a chill, no small one; of loving ardour I have long seen none among the Berendeys
In the hearts of men I have noticed a chill, No small one; of loving ardour I have long seen none among the Berendeys. The service of beauty has vanished from them; In the young I do not see glances Moistened with bewitching passion; I do not see pensive maidens,
Books · Mores · People · Nature · Humour
The Secret of the English Lawn: Sow It, Then Arrange for Rain Over Seven Centuries
André Maurois
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Advice on beauty and virtue citing Socrates in an old Russian book
I name no names, but all the same:. ...a woman of plain features, seated before the mirror, ought to say to herself: “How shall I look if I am ill-natured besides?” while a beautiful one should say: “What is beauty beside virtue?”
Cinema · Museums · Mores
Sorino's mobile dental surgery, he being the inventor of galvanic water, served as an ambulance in the 1870s
The travelling dentist's carriage at the National Automobile Museum in Compiègne, France, recalls the wagon in which the dentist Dr King Schultz travelled in Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" This mobile dental surgery belonged to Sorino, the inventor of galvanic water, that is, to all
Observations · Mores
The meaning of the word oshchip in a popular saying and its mistaken pronunciation
Remember the expression "to land like a hen in the plucking"? It is a mangled pronunciation of the winged phrase "to land like a hen in the ощип", where the ощип (oshchip) is the plucking of feathers from a chicken carcass.
NB! · Mores
A Few Words on the Difficulties of Legendary, or Rather Mythical, Couples
Art · Mores · Humour
A Handyman by the Hour, 1772 Style: The Lady of the House Feels a Sudden Yearning for the Chimney Sweep
Imagine watching this scene while gnawing the last of a beef bone at the bottom of the fireplace
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Splendid household furnishings, dress, carriages, the luxury of the table: all this makes a man neither great nor worthy of respect, for none of it forms any part of him, but lies outside him and has no kinship with him whatever
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