Faith · Science · Nature · Rome
The Sacred Geese before the Temple of Juno Moneta on the Capitoline Hill. The historical chronicles, including the works of Titus Livius, offer no reliable confirmation that it was the geese who played the decisive part in saving the Capitol. The legend seems rather to have arisen as a symbolic
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Our river will grow cleaner and cleaner with every year. I hope that soon it will be possible to swim in the Moskva River along its entire length
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He trod with difficulty along the spur above the ice-bound river. There used to be many of them, the proud ones, many, and he was the last of such. Tried more than once in the storm, today he gave way, as if out of spite. From the arrows sticking
Faith · Mores · Nature · Humour
In the eighteenth century pugs were so popular in Europe that one Masonic lodge came to be called the Order of the Pug. Members of the order wore collars, barked and bowed down before images of pugs. The secret society known as the "Order of the Pug" appeared
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A Polish angler has pulled a medieval sword from the Vistula. As the law requires, he handed the find over to the capital's Office for the Protection of Monuments. According to preliminary estimates, the sword dates from the 13th to 14th centuries, the time of the founding of
Archive · Observations · Paris · People · Nature
Salvador Dalí, aged 65, emerges from the underpass of the Bastille Métro station on the rue de Lyon with an anteater. The anteater is not his: the animal was provided for the photo shoot by the Jardin des Plantes. Very well. But have you never wondered by what right, exactly?
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A ball on the stump of a giant sequoia. In the largest living specimens of Sequoiadendron giganteum, the trunk reaches 10 metres in diameter. The oldest giant sequoias growing today are 3,200 to 3,500 years old.
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Russian archaeology marks an event of world significance: a Russian monument, the cave paintings of Shulgan-Tash on the River Belaya in Bashkortostan, has been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. I congratulate everyone who has had a hand in the work at the site and in its study,
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Good Lord, what a beautiful bird! The roseate spoonbill, of the ibis family, is found in South America, Central America and the south of North America