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French 1804 illustration of Napoleon's invasion of England by Channel tunnel and balloons

What are Napoleonic plans? Take, for instance, this illustration of Napoleon's forthcoming conquest of England, from the French press of 1804. The victorious invasion was to proceed beneath the earth and above the water: troops and guns cross through a tunnel under the Channel, accompanied by an attack

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In 1830 American James Barron patented a mechanical fan with a hanging weight

In 1830 the American inventor James Barron patented a mechanical fan with this witty drawing, in which a man reclining on a sofa smokes at his ease and only an open sheet of the Hard Working Men Journal reminds us of the burdens of labour. The fan, driven by clockwork

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Doctor of Historical Sciences and scientific consultant to the film "The Union of Salvation" on the roots of his love of historical knowledge and on the Decembrists: "I still haven't got round to revising for the test" ☺️

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Blaise Pascal, his discoveries and the sculpture by Augustin Pajou in Clermont-Ferrand

Blaise Pascal, the outstanding French inventor, mathematician, thinker and, in many respects, altogether advanced man. Sculpture by Augustin Pajou, housed at the University of Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. Pascal is known for a number of mathematical and physical discoveries with which we become acquainted as early as school: Pascal'

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I adore Dmitry Dmitrievich Belyaev

I adore Dmitry Dmitrievich Belyaev. And, by way of a footnote to the news from Russian science

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A Very Simple Explanation of What Aerodynamics Is

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Runiverse website opens free access to reference materials on medieval Russian lands

The cultural-historical site Runivers has posted consolidated reference materials on the medieval Russian lands: complete lists of the ruling princes, specially drawn maps of the principalities, and more. All of the materials are freely accessible.

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Arboretum Park of the Peter the Great Botanical Garden operates in test mode from 2 July

Incidentally, since 2 July one of Russia's first parks, the Arboretum Park of the Peter the Great Botanical Garden, has been open on a trial basis. The oldest trees in the regular part of the park, laid out in the 1820s, are two hundred years old, but the

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The Oceanographic Museum of Monaco devotes an entire hall to Cousteau: a kind of model of his ship holds the personal belongings of the museum's one-time director, the equipment Cousteau used, the instruments he invented, finds, letters and much else besi

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The lecture can be watched on YouTube and VKontakte

Today at 18:30 the website of the Russian Geographical Society will host a lecture marking the 110th anniversary of the legendary explorer of the World Ocean, Jacques-Yves Cousteau. The lecture can also be watched on YouTube and VK.

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Anthropologists Joke, or How Could One Not Love Alexander Kozintsev

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Equal sums of squares of 10, 11, 12 and of 13, 14, and a note on the painting and Rachinsky

"The knowledge needed to solve this problem lies in the regularities governing the sum of squares of certain two-digit numbers, named after a celebrated Russian educator" 10²+11²+12²= 365 13²+14²= 365 Those whom the subject has intrigued will find an informative note about this painting,