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When you are old, Kala Nag, some rich Rajah will buy you from the Government for your height and good manners, and then you will have nothing to do; you will only wear golden earrings in your ears, a golden howdah (a kind of saddle) on your back and cloth
When you are old, Kala Nag, some rich Rajah will buy you from the Government for your height and good manners, and then you will have nothing to do; you will only wear golden earrings in your ears, a golden howdah (a kind of saddle) on your back and cloth
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Monument to Sparky, the Squirrel Who Sought the Light Even in the Darkest of Times
Monument to Sparky, the squirrel who sought the light even in the darkest of times. The memorial was erected by a group of students on the campus of Delaware Valley University in the United States. The students thus expressed their gratitude to the squirrel that gnawed through an electric cable,
Books · Nature
Boris Slutsky’s poem “Horses in the Ocean” about horses drowning on the ship Gloria
Horses can swim, But not well. Not far. "Gloria" in Russian means "Slava", That you will remember easily. A ship was sailing, proud of its name, Trying to overcome the ocean. In the hold, tossing their kindly muzzles, A thousand horses trampled day and night. A
Books · Nature
Ivan Turgenev on the likeness of man and dog in his prose poem “The Dog”
There are two of us in the room: my dog and I. Outside, a terrible, frenzied storm is howling. The dog sits before me, and looks me straight in the eyes. And I, too, look into her eyes. She seems to want to tell me something. She is dumb, she
Faith · Art · Madrid · Museums · Observations · Nature
Citrons in Zurbarán's 1633 still life, on show at the Prado until 30 June
My grandmother loved "Tsitron" sweets, which had a bright lemon flavour and a pretty wrapper with lemons on it. But it never occurred to me that the citron is a fruit in its own right; I took it for just another name for the lemon. It was thanks
Science · Mores · Nature
Moonstone: Roman beliefs about its origin and the value of its different colours
What Colour Can Moonstone Be? The ancient Romans supposed that moonstone, with its unearthly shimmer, had been formed from solidified moonlight. The most valuable is considered to be blue moonstone, the more intense the shade, the higher the price; the rarest is pink, the commonest is white, and the least
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The Dandelion of a Healthy Man
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A Stunning Picture!
A stunning picture! “Mont Blanc, Vue de la Serpe. Storm Effect”. Théodore Rousseau, 1834. Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
Archive · Geography · Society · Paris · Nature
The 1910 Paris flood and the end of wooden block paving on the city's streets
The Paris flood of January–February 1910 was the worst since 1658. The Seine itself did not burst its banks, but the rise of the water in it and in its tributaries flooded most of the city through the sewers, drainage pipes and underground tunnels, the Metro included. Hundreds of
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One Ostrich Power Is Not Such a Small Amount of Horsepower After All
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Twenty-seven flower drawings by Herman Saftleven the Younger for Agneta Block
The delicate flowers of the Dutch Baroque artist Herman Saftleven the Younger (1609-1685) are part of one of his last commissions. Twenty-seven drawings of flowers and plants are known that Saftleven produced at the end of his life for Agneta Block. She commissioned several painters at once to