In the Press · Museums · Heritage · Society · Paris
What should have happened four months ago, after the robbery of the Louvre, has now come to pass: its director Laurence des Cars has resigned, and the President of France has accepted her resignation. And he promptly sent her off to work on cooperation between major museums as part of
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February reminds us that the coldest time of year is always followed by renewal, and we recall the key publications of the last winter month. A of the most interesting posts of the past 28 days:. 📌 A living sea. Kazakhstan has solved the environmental problem of the North Aral 📌 “Ministerial
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Good Lord, Gucci creative director Demna Gvasalia has issued a manifesto on his vision of the brand. These manifestos are always one and the same, but this time reading it leaves a particularly odd sensation. A little water and pathos to begin with: "A house that has lived many
In the Press · Faith · The East · Society
The Guardian once ran a rather strange story about how, in a telephone conversation with French President Jacques Chirac in 2003, George W. Bush appealed to their shared Christian faith as grounds for invading Iraq. Bush is supposed to have said to Chirac something along these lines: “Gog and Magog
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On 29 July 1955 American scientists announced their intention to launch the first artificial satellite of the Earth within the next two years. On 2 August, at the Sixth Congress of the International Astronautical Federation in Copenhagen, Academician Sedov promised that the USSR would launch an Earth satellite before the
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The first mentions of Chernobyl in the Western press are connected with pogroms: March 1919, hundreds of Jews killed in Ukraine, in Berdichev, Zhitomir, Chernobyl, Ovruch, Belaya Tserkov, Letichev, Elisavetgrad, Vasilkov and other places.
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During the civil wars in Venezuela in the late nineteenth century, European merchants in the country suffered heavy losses, chiefly German, French, Spanish and Belgian capital. The ambassadors of these countries demanded compensation. The dictator of the day, Cipriano Castro, refused to pay reparations or service the foreign debts. The
Archaeology · In the Press · London · Science
Beneath the Palace of Westminster, flint tools of the Mesolithic and Neolithic eras, about 6,000 years old, have been found, together with artefacts dating from the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages In Shaanxi Province in China, a network of 573 ancient stone fortifications has been found, the earliest
In the Press · Books · Heritage
The channel has already published a piece on how, in recent years, European libraries have suffered badly from thefts of rare editions of Russian classics: in the Baltic states, Berlin, Warsaw, The Hague, Geneva, Lyon, Munich, Paris, Prague and Helsinki, book thieves substituted copies for the originals. The most popular
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Specialists at the National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen intend to use atomic oxygen, a substance found naturally in low Earth orbit, in the restoration of works on paper, reports The Art Newspaper Russia. Lead white enjoyed wide popularity from ancient times until the twentieth century, when it fell out
In the Press · Faith · Heritage · Society · Paris
A Romanian national who set fire to the church of Notre-Dame-des-Champs in Paris last July, as Le Parisien reports, has been declared insane by the Paris Criminal Court. He was already known for similar acts in 2021. He set fire to a statue of Christ, which was
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Of late American women have been seized by a sort of décolletage mania. Evening dress has, in the shortest possible time, descended quite literally to the limit beyond which it is more than risky to go. Nor is low dress worn only at soirées and dinners: it is worn in