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Oldest Tattoo in Dutch Painting Discovered. Conservators have discovered the image of a tattoo while examining a seventeenth-century group portrait that had returned from an exhibition. Specialists at the Amsterdam Museum believe the tattoo, found on the wrist of the presumably wealthy merchant Wessel Smits, to be the oldest
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Modern Afghan banknotes bear a reproduction of the Eucratides, the heaviest ancient gold coin ever discovered, minted under the Greek kings who ruled the region. Around the Dioscuri one can still read the inscription BAΣIΛEΩΣ MEΓAΛOY EYKRATIΔOY, that is, "of the Great King Eucratides", ruler of Bactria in
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Guys, this can't possibly be true, it's obvious at once. The astrophysicist Avi Loeb, known as the author of theories about interstellar objects, joked that Kim Kardashian had been "invited" to join the research team studying the comet 3I/Atlas, after she dared to
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Art Basel and UBS bank had just conducted a study of purchasing power among men and women of different ages. The results of the study showed that women spend 46% more on art than men and are more willing to take risks, acquiring works by unknown artists.
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A Portrait of Nikola Tesla in an Orthodox Church in Serbia. Tesla has not been canonised, but as a great scientist he is regarded by the people as a saint of a cultural order. Hence his portraits, and even icons bearing his likeness, may be found in churches, though this
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If Nietzsche holds that To create a new heaven and a new earth, one first had to destroy … the former highest values then for Plato true values are eternal and immutable ideas, such as goodness, beauty and justice. They are not the creations of man but patterns to which the
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Palaeontologist Andrey Spiridonov puts forward a very interesting idea of Baltica as one of the most ancient continental blocks of the Earth. He calls Baltica a palaeocontinent of the Palaeozoic era and, in effect, the ancient core of Europe, around which smaller continents have accreted over the past 450 million
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Vast masses of people, who have never in the history of mankind been so susceptible to hypnotic suggestion as they are now, have become puppets of "public opinion", manipulated by newspapers that serve, of course, whatever actual power prevails. What is printed in the morning editions of the
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When it comes to the process of self-cognition carried out by absolute thought in the person of man, it is language that turns out to be the privileged form of outward manifestation in which this process both begins and ends. It is in language that thought finally returns to
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Yet another strange use of AI. For some reason, the Academia website has begun automatically generating podcasts from the articles uploaded to its system. Naturally, all users are already aware of the far from sensible policy of this resource, but now, on top of the extortion, we are to have
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It turns out that the original version of the sculpted portrait of Nefertiti had wrinkles. This was shown by a CT scan of the bust carried out in 2006, which revealed a second sculpture carved into the limestone core beneath the plaster. The inner face proved to be more realistic:
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Plutarch, On the Pythian Oracles Yet neither Plutarch nor Herodotus speaks of these "divine vapours" at Delphi unambiguously. The haze from the rock is rather taken as a metaphor for otherworldly revelations. At least, such is the pragmatic reading of the legend. All the more so since the