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The Syracusan moneylender Timon and the finances of the Delian sanctuary in the 2nd century BC
Met an interesting character. Timon of Syracuse lived on Delos in the 2nd century BC and was a moneylender. The very sacred island on which Apollo was born proved quite conducive to the growth of commerce and the financial sector. Among Timon's borrowers, we know, was the federation
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Alexander Herzen's letter to Alexander II requesting freedom, land and speech for Russians
Letter from Alexander Herzen to Alexander II, an Emperor Who Did Not Have to Cross a Square Drenched in Blood to Mount the Throne. Simple, clear and kind words. A cherished appeal. The request of a free Russian to grant the Russian people freedom, land and the spoken word. Much
NB! · Moscow · Observations · Society · Paris · Humour
Paving on rue du Temple in Paris compared with street improvement in Moscow
Paris paving on the rue du Temple sends envious greetings to Moscow's street improvements. Whenever I feel like complaining about some oversight of Sobyanin's, I remember that somewhere in the heart of Europe there is Anne Hidalgo, and, you know, all my discontent vanishes as if
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Iron scold's bridle used on women accused of gossip in 17th-century England
In seventeenth-century England, this contraption was applied to women accused of gossiping: a metal frame fitted over the head made it impossible to open the mouth. A woman convicted of so nebulous an offence as tittle-tattle was required to walk through the town in such headgear
Observations · Society · Nature · Humour
Some do not believe that a mere few thousand years ago people, covered in hair and clad in a pitiful semblance of clothing or none at all, could run about with sticks, huddle into herds and display behaviour of the most thoroughly animal kind, explaining
Some do not believe that a mere few thousand years ago people, covered in hair and clad in a pitiful semblance of clothing or none at all, could run about with sticks, huddle into herds and display behaviour of the most thoroughly animal kind, explaining it by saying that man
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The permitted and the forbidden compared in England, Germany, France and the USSR
Churchill is credited with this aphorism:. In England everything is permitted except what is forbidden. In Germany everything is forbidden except what is permitted. In France everything is permitted, even what is forbidden. In the USSR everything is forbidden, even what is permitted.
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The Impeccable Style of Jacques Cathelineau, First Generalissimo of the Catholic and Royal Army, Who Stood Against the Revolutionary Forces in the Vendée Uprising in France in the 1790s
Today we remember the martyrdom of a linen dealer who headed a counter-revolutionary revolt, took the town of Cholet five days later, and was soon elected commander-in-chief of the Catholic and Royal forces.
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The Expulsion of the Jews in Medieval Europe
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The Russian text of the ratified convention on the cession of Alaska is contained in volume 42 of the Complete Collection of the Laws of the Russian Empire
The Russian text of the ratified convention on the cession of Alaska is contained in volume 42 of the Complete Collection of the Laws of the Russian Empire. This document says nothing about 99 years of lease
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Preamble of the Treaty on the Cession of Alaska to the United States and the Languages of Its Text
The preamble to the Treaty on the Cession of Alaska to the United States of North America. The treaty itself, rather oddly, is drawn up in English and French; in Russian there is only the page preceding the text of the treaty and the page following it
Moscow · Observations · Society · Pop Culture
Dotage Grows Stronger 💪🏽
Moscow's Tverskoy Court has ruled that a video in which Ksenia Sobchak kisses Anastasia Ivleeva constitutes propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations, and has banned its distribution.