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Ancient Greek hairstyles and headdresses make one wonder: at precisely which moment did fashion take a wrong turn?

Aristocracy · Monarchies · Observations · Humour

Spanish Bourbons and the claim of Luis Alfonso, Duke of Anjou, to the French throne

I see excellent potential for a dynastic union in this photograph, an alliance of the English and Spanish crowns against France, say, if Prince George were to marry the Infanta Sofía. There is just one small "but": Spain is tied to France through Bourbon-Anjou, and King Felipe

Faith · Books · Observations

When your time comes to die, as soon as your soul has left the sublunary world and the light of the Sun, go to the right along the sacred meadows and groves of Phersephoneia, taking careful heed of temptations

You will come to the well-built temple of Hades. On the right (on the left) is a spring flowing from the lake of oblivion, Lethe; white waters gush forth there, and beside it stands a white cypress. Do not go near that spring, not even close. Here the descending

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A Telegram Admin, Then?

Black-and-white photo of a boy drinking from a cup on a chain at a fountain with sculptures on a city street.

NB! · Archive · Observations · Mores · Paris

A Paris drinking fountain in the 20th and 21st centuries

A drinking fountain in Paris in the 20th century and in the 21st. From which century would you care to take a sip?

Colour drawing of a multi-storey house facade with sculpted decoration, balustraded balconies, dormer windows and a scale bar below.

Architecture · Observations · Humour

Architectural elevation of a town house facade with mansard and balconies

What Is Stopping You from Building Houses Like This? (In fact, we know what)

Art · Observations · Humour

The drawing is called “Big Dreams”

The drawing is called “Big Dreams”. The artist is Jean-Jacques Sempé, 1997 And how do your weekends begin?

Observations · Science · Society

Question about a single national list of scientific periodicals given RINTs, the VAK list and RSCI

Vladislav Panchenko, Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences, proposes the creation of a national list of scientific periodicals. He explains that “without a single national list of scientific periodicals we shall not be able to go on developing, or to defend our positions in the international scientific community, including

Geography · Observations · Mores · Society · Nature

Lobster in America went from food of the poor to a popular product thanks to the railways

Originally, lobsters in America were a very cheap and plentiful food, so much so that they were associated with poverty. They were used as animal feed, and workers campaigned for a limit on the amount of lobster in their weekly rations. The product owed its popularity to the arrival of

Painting of the ruined colonnade of an ancient building, with a figure in a toga on the steps and a red sun in the sunset sky.

NB! · Observations

Sunset will soon come to every country in Europe

Sunset. Very soon, in every country of Europe

Faith · Observations

There are no times so bad that a good man cannot live in them

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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