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Voltaire on how the absurdity of Christian dogma breeds atheists
False science breeds atheists; true science brings men to their knees before God. but The absurdity of Christian dogmas breeds atheists. Both the one and the other: Voltaire
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Veterans of the Union, the Northerners, and Veterans of the Confederacy, the Southerners, at the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg in 1913
Had the Battle of Gettysburg ended otherwise, we might today have had two separate states, the Northern States and the Confederacy. The Russian Empire, in the person of Alexander II, supported the Union and the legitimate President Lincoln from the very outset.
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Dress codes and the steady taste of King Philip of Spain, who was dressed by Jaime Gallo
In one interview I was asked about my attitude to dress codes. In truth, mine is simple: irrespective of the whims of event organisers, I wear whatever I consider appropriate and whatever I happen to have to hand. Remember how Anna Wintour dressed for the recent Met Gala? In a
Art · Museums · Observations
Berlin's “Man in a Golden Helmet” ceased to be regarded as a Rembrandt in 1984
In 1984 experts questioned the attribution of Rembrandt's Man in a Golden Helmet in the collection of the Berlin Art Gallery. Is it too much like Rembrandt to be Rembrandt? The work had been ascribed to Rembrandt for many years, until a special Dutch commission for establishing the
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The choice of Shirshov and Mikoyan for signs on the House on the Embankment
Opposite the mostly infamous House on the Embankment stand two signs reading "The house where ... lived". One wonders by what principle, out of several dozen outstanding and quite well-known names, it was Academician Shirshov and Mikoyan who were chosen. After all, besides them the house was home
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Miniature face on a brick wall on Lev Tolstoy Street, author unknown
Dreadful street art on Lev Tolstoy Street. Own up: whose work is it?
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A reminder: you, together with all your cares, sorrows and joys, are to be found somewhere in here
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On the site of the cosy "Zvon" coffee shop in the basement of the seventeenth-century bell tower of the Church of St John the Baptist on Pyatnitskaya Street, a different coffee shop has opened following a change of rector: it is called "Perezvon"
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But in fact the Russian army took Berlin three times: the first in the course of the bloody Seven Years' War, on 12 October 1760; the second on 4 March 1813, during the Russian army's Foreign Campaign of 1813-1814; now, unjustly…
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In today's presidential decree "On Approval of the Fundamentals of the State Policy of the Russian Federation in the Sphere of Historical Education", I noticed an important clause on the digitisation of archival documents and the creation of a nationwide
In today's presidential decree "On Approval of the Fundamentals of the State Policy of the Russian Federation in the Sphere of Historical Education", I noticed an important clause on the digitisation of archival documents and the creation of a nationwide platform for archival search. We shall
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Of all the churches in Constantinople, the one that impressed me most was the Church of the Holy Saviour in Chora, part of the Chora Monastery complex
Of all the churches in Constantinople, the one that impressed me most was the Church of the Holy Saviour in Chora, part of the Chora Monastery complex. In present-day Istanbul it is the best-preserved Byzantine church; the current building dates from the 11th century and stands on the