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Well, well, what have we here?
Well, well, what have we here? A catalogue of unicorns, I see. I trust you have at least a two-horned one in stock?
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Pigeon and duck recipes in “The Mother’s Book” by the abolitionist Lydia Maria Child
The nineteenth-century American abolitionist and writer Lydia Maria Child, in her book "The Mother's Book" of advice on thrifty housekeeping for those of modest means, gives a veeeery strange recipe for cooking a pigeon. The vegetables she bids one boil for an hour at the
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A steel officer’s bed of the 1800s in a modern interior
I know that everyone but me got rid of their antique metal beds long ago, and more's the pity. Here is an excellent couch, both for the interior and for comfort: a steel officer's bed of the 1800s. One need only add a handsome cover for
Archive · Observations · Science · Society
1980 Minutes of a USSR Academy of Sciences Council Banning Citation of Scientists Who Emigrated
Found an interesting document in my home archive: the minutes of a meeting of one of the councils at the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. The agenda is extremely topical and perfectly intelligible in our present circumstances. The item in question was a ban on mentioning in dissertations the
NB! · Observations · Heritage · Humour
If you feel like exclaiming with a smirk: "So we have finally run out of ruins of our own!" or asking who is footing the bill, recall last year's news about the restoration of a UNESCO monument, which said that the project involved sponsorial…
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The Gladiator Is Not What He Was
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When they ask at the door of Popoff Kitchen whether you have anything forbidden
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When you like your own photos
Auguste Tulmouche, 1870
Moscow · Observations · Society · Humour
Near the Monument to Bulat Okudzhava on the Old Arbat, Poor Mu-Mu Was Slaughtered About Half a Year Ago; Someone Suddenly Bought Up the Premises and Set Up the Election Headquarters of the Party of Growth There
Near the monument to Bulat Okudzhava on the Old Arbat, about half a year ago, poor Mu-Mu was slaughtered; someone suddenly bought up the premises and set up there the election headquarters of the Party of Growth. So what is one to do with such considerable floor space when
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Restored models of the Christ the Saviour Cathedral dome at the Museum of Architecture
Models of the dome of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour at the Restorer: A Profession exhibition in the Museum of Architecture. The models date from the 1840s and 1850s and were restored in our own time. They look very impressive; I had never looked at the Cathedral of Christ
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Portraits by Lawrence, Bol and Aspertini at the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum
Why can't menswear be like this? Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum. Portrait of David Lyon, Thomas Lawrence, 1825. Portrait of a Youth in a Plumed Hat, Ferdinand Bol, 1647. Portrait of Tommaso Raimondi, Amico Aspertini, 1500.
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The History of the Golden Horde Is Inseparable from the Chronicle of Modern Kazakh Statehood, Says Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
In short, it is not only in Russia that politicians turn their gaze to the Middle Ages