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Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, Polish palaeontologist and explorer of the Gobi Desert
The woman and the velociraptor. In the photograph: Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925 - 2015), one of the world's most distinguished palaeontologists and a key figure of post-war science in Poland. The chief objects of Zofia's scientific work were the trilobites of Central Europe, the dinosaurs of
Observations · Heritage · Society · Nature
On the news of three days ago that the 198-year-old Turgenev Oak has been struck off the European "Tree of the Year" competition
On the news of three days ago that the 198-year-old Turgenev Oak has been struck off the European “Tree of the Year” competition. Every outlet illustrates the report with a photograph of the fallen tree. The oak, planted by Turgenev, was damaged in a storm in November 2021.
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The writer and naturalist Vera Chaplina (1908-1994) with her charges
Moscow · Mores · Nature
The lioness Kinuli, who lived in a Moscow communal flat with writer Vera Chaplina
In the 1930s everyone knew the story of the lioness from the communal flat at 16 Bolshaya Dmitrovka, and not only in the USSR. Vera Chaplina, a member of staff at the Moscow Zoo and a writer of animal stories, took home a lion cub whose mother had rejected her.
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Queen Victoria and her Pomeranian Turi, whom she asked to keep beside her on her deathbed
Queen Victoria with her beloved Pomeranian Spitz, Turi. The Queen asked that Turi be at her side on her deathbed
NB! · Observations · Nature · Humour
A tree has grown into a fence and its gates, photographed in a snowfall
A tree that has grown into its own fence. Does anyone recognise themselves?
Books · Observations · Nature · Humour
The play of young mares in Leo Tolstoy’s “Kholstomer” recalls the behaviour of coquettes
“The yearlings, the young fillies, already pretend to be grown-up and staid, and seldom skip about or join the merry companies. They graze decorously, arching their swan-like, close-cropped necks, and, as though they too had tails, flick their little brooms. Like the grown horses, some lie down,
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In the winter of 2012 the fountain by Bartholdi, creator of the Statue of Liberty, on Place des Terreaux in the centre of French Lyon froze most picturesquely
Cinema · Society · Nature · Humour
Wolf photographed for the first time in Luxembourg, where the species was exterminated in 1893
A wolf has been photographed in Luxembourg. What of it, you ask? Firstly, the picture unmistakably shows the wolf from the cartoon "Once Upon a Time There Was a Dog" [Zhil-byl pyos], voiced by Armen Dzhigarkhanyan. Secondly, wolves were exterminated in Luxembourg as long ago as 1893,
NB! · Geography · Nature
The Sands of the Namib Desert Meet the Waters of the South Atlantic
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Hand pruning of a tree in the late 19th century and Sofia Coppola’s film “The Virgin Suicides”
Saw this tree and was reminded of Sofia Coppola's 1999 film "The Virgin Suicides". If you haven't seen it, consider it a recommendation for the holidays. The photograph shows the pruning of a tree at the end of the nineteenth century. This is no