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The lion tamer Irina Bugrimova with a lion in the early 1960s

The lion tamer Irina Bugrimova with a lion in the early 1960s. Photograph by Semyon Mishin-Morgenstern. Irina Bugrimova was the first woman lion tamer in the USSR and a People's Artist of the Soviet Union. She was born on 13 March 1910 in Kharkiv, into the family

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Fet begged to “drive the living boat off with a single push”, to catch the fleeting before it vanishes

Fet begged to “drive the living boat off with a single push”, to catch the fleeting before it vanishes. The monthly digest has a more modest task, though the same one: to hold on to what matters before the flood of news washes it away. Here is the main news

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The Enraged Elephant from an Old Book

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Il Salvatore salvato, the Saved Saviour: a sculpture carved from the trunk of a centuries-old olive tree killed by Pierce's disease

The sculpture Il Salvatore salvato, the Saved Saviour, carved from the trunk of a centuries-old olive tree that died of Pierce's disease. The crucifix stands on the Salento peninsula, in a burnt olive grove from which, shortly before the fire, the trunk of the dead ancient tree

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Pyotr Konchalovsky's painting is called "Begonias", but actually there is a gloxinia standing beside the begonias, and behind them, it seems, some alocasias

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In an article on how the inhabitants of southern Norway could make wooden fish traps at least seven thousand years ago, I came upon a suggestion that at about the same time people carried commercially valuable salmonids, namely brown trout, into mountain

In an article on how the inhabitants of southern Norway could make wooden fish traps at least seven thousand years ago, I came upon a suggestion that at about the same time people carried commercially valuable salmonids, namely brown trout, into mountain lakes. The hunter-fisher-gatherers, according to the

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That Magdalenian art is not a random jumble of animal figures but a specially ordered structure is, on the whole, not a new idea

That Magdalenian art is not a random jumble of animal figures but a specially ordered structure is, on the whole, not a new idea. André Leroi-Gourhan wrote about it in the 1960s. He arranged the Stone Age herd around the horse and the bison. The scheme was discussed from

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In southern Brazil, on a high plateau in the coldest part of the country, an araucaria forest grows

In southern Brazil, on a high plateau in the coldest part of the country, an araucaria forest grows. The araucaria is a coniferous tree whose ancestors were alive in the days of the dinosaurs. The forest does not form a solid mass but is interspersed with grassy glades, onto which

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Should you feel blue, simply reflect that 95% of the world's chaga reserves lie in Russia

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Remember slash-and-burn farming?

In short, it was not quite so simple. Although in this case it is the method that is interesting rather than the result. Polish archaeologists have established that the builders of megalithic tombs did not burn the forest down to the ground. This follows from an analysis of pollen and

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If one is to recall how American painting began and what it portended, one must name the country's first major artistic movement, the Hudson River School

If one is to recall how American painting began and what it portended, one must name the country's first major artistic movement, the Hudson River School. Its voice is usually presented as a hymn to untouched nature. But can you really not sense the anxiety in these majestic

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John Keats feared he might cease to be before his pen had gleaned his teeming brain, «before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain»

John Keats feared he might cease to be before his pen had gleaned his teeming brain, «before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain». Our concern is rather that, amid the informational din, the important things of the month should not get lost. Hence the regular digest: the