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Iranian silver wine cup with a griffin, holding 1.5 litres, is over 2,500 years old
An Iranian silver wine cup with a griffin holds 1.5 litres of wine. Its age: more than 2,500 years
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A good infographic on the Kremlin from the Kultura.rf portal
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Map of the Russian Empire, 1783
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A View of Chambord
A view of Chambord. For its sake there was talk of diverting the course of the Loire, which, happily, never came to pass. They say the purpose of building this magnificent Renaissance château was to put the nose of the covetous Charles V out of joint. And the prank succeeded.
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The fate of Chambord deserves a separate telling: for all its magnificence, no king ever properly lived in it, and it was given away, inherited and resold
The fate of Chambord deserves a separate telling: for all its magnificence, no king ever properly lived in it, and it was given away, inherited and resold. In the twentieth century it became state property once more
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Today is the birthday of King Francis I, who built one of the symbols of France, the Château de Chambord
Today is the birthday of King Francis I, who built one of the symbols of France, the Château de Chambord. They say that Da Vinci, whom Francis had invited to his court, took part in planning the château
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A rhinoceros from the 1642 Gazophylacium Anglicanum and its etymology of the word daughter
A rhinoceros from the English dictionary of 1642, Gazophylacium Anglicanum, in which an anonymous author supplies the etymologies of words. It contains some curious conjectures: e.g., that daughter derives from dos (a dowry)
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Birthday of the 16th-century naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi and his works on monsters
Today is the birthday of the eminent sixteenth-century naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi. At this rate we shall soon be learning the natural sciences exclusively from the textbooks of those years: with mermaids, memory of the womb and man-eating trees
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A Few Words on Showing Due Respect to Dinosaurs
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The Six-Metre Skull of a Blue Whale
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