Geography · Maps · Society

Provinces of pre-revolutionary France and their replacement by departments during the Revolution

Map of the French provinces before their abolition and division into departments in 1789. Before the Revolution, France was divided into provinces, many of which go back to medieval kingdoms and feudal territories. These provinces differed considerably in their laws, customs and administrative systems. During the Revolution they were replaced

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On the Overthrow of the Provisional Government

Architecture · Moscow · Heritage · Society

On 28 July the Moscow City Court rejected the administrative claim brought by Arkhnadzor and Muscovites who joined its appeal against the mayor's office and the Moscow City Duma

The claim concerned Article 17 of the new city law on cultural heritage sites, adopted by the Moscow City Duma. The article allows sites to be struck off the list of identified monuments not on the strength of a historical and cultural appraisal, nor by decision of the relevant councils

Art · London · Museums · Society

London's Tate Modern has been the most visited museum of modern art since 2014, except in 2021, when the lead passed to the Centre Pompidou in Paris and to MoMA in New York

In recent years, however, the museum has faced falling attendance, especially among foreign visitors, who make up its core audience. In 2019–2020, for instance, there were more than 600,000 young people aged 16 to 24; in 2023–2024 there were only 357,000. The Art Newspaper writes that

Archive · Faith · The East · Society

Balamand Monastery in Lebanon and the Decline of the Country's Christian Population

A Lebanese Orthodox priest at the Balamand Stauropegic Monastery of the Dormition, situated 80 kilometres north of Beirut. Photograph by Marilyn Stafford, 1960. The Balamand Monastery is one of the oldest foundations in the Patriarchate of Antioch, with a history stretching back more than 850 years. The number of Christians

NB! · Observations · Society · People

Incidentally, Trump is rather like Mussolini

NB! · Art · Moscow · Society

"Big Clay No. 4" is being removed from Bolotnaya Embankment

Archive · Heritage · Society

Insurgents destroy the eight-metre statue of Stalin during the 1956 Hungarian Uprising

The shattered figure of Stalin during the Hungarian Uprising, 23 October - 10 November 1956. The insurgent crowd brought down the eight-metre statue of Stalin erected for his seventieth birthday, leaving only the boots, into which a Hungarian flag was planted. The disfigured head lay for a long time in

NB! · Society · Nature · Humour

It Turns Out That Biden's Hyperborea Is Neither a Diagnosis nor Even a Country, but a Plant of the Daisy Family

Faith · The East · Society

Number of churches in Saudi Arabia: 0

The laws of the country forbid the construction of places of worship not belonging to Islam

Faith · Society · People

Gender ideology is a Luciferian refusal to accept from God the nature of sex

Gender ideology is a Luciferian refusal to accept from God the nature of sex. It is the supreme rebellion against the Creator Cardinal Robert Sarah

Art · Monarchies · Observations · Society

Arthur Drummond's Allegory of the British Empire, 1901

Arthur Drummond's allegory of the British Empire, 1901. Queen Victoria, already dead by the time the picture was painted, is seated on a heavenly throne, surrounded by aristocrats, bureaucracy and native subjects from the colonies. On earth are Edward VII, the Prince of Wales, and other members of