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The miniature island that changes its nationality every 6 months

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It is located in a river between France and Spain There are no pheasants on Pheasant Island, Victor Hugo exclaimed when he visited the site...
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Why do roses have thorns

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Roses are one of the most beautiful flowers, but they are distinguished not only by their colors and fragrance, but also by the fact...
Pakistan uses artificial rain

Pakistan uses artificial rain to combat smog

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Artificial rain was used for the first time in Pakistan last Saturday in an attempt to combat dangerous levels of smog in the metropolis of Lahore.
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The Strauss dynasty with a new interactive museum in Vienna

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"Strauss House" is not just a museum. Concerts will be held in it, and those who wish can take on the role of conductors A...
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The heir to the Hermès empire plans to adopt his 51-year-old...

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Nicolas Puech, the 80-year-old heir to the Hermès fortune, is reportedly planning to distribute his fortune in an unexpected way. According to Swiss publication Tribune...
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Coal use set to record in 2023

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Global coal supply is expected to hit a record high in use in 2023 on the back of increased demand from now with emerging...
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Financial scandal in the Vatican: Cardinal was sentenced to prison

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This is happening for the first time in the history of the Catholic Church A cardinal was sentenced to prison by a Vatican court. This...
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Pope Francis celebrated his 87th birthday in the presence of dozens...

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Children from the Vatican-run pediatric clinic sang several songs for the Holy Father Pope Francis turned 87 today, greeted by children who helped him blow...
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After 200 years: 2 new Rembrandt paintings discovered

They were in a private collection Two previously unknown portraits by Rembrandt were discovered after 200 years in the private collection of a British family,...

2 million dollar fine for pranking the Chinese army

A Chinese comedy troupe has been fined 14.7 million yuan ($2.1 million) for a joke about the military that used President Xi Jinping's slogan,...

World Bee Day

On May 20, the world celebrates International Bee Day. The day has been celebrated since 2018 on the initiative of the Slovenian Association of...

More than 4,000 prisoners were pardoned in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe has released a fifth of all prisoners under a presidential amnesty order aimed at freeing up space in the country's overcrowded prisons, reported...

The IMF is concerned that Zimbabwe is introducing an official gold-backed digital currency

The way of using crypto-wallets and analog digital assets in the world has not received the support of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and...

One of the world’s oldest lions has been killed near a national park in Kenya

19-year-old Luunkiito attacked cattle and was speared by herders A wild male lion, considered one of the oldest representatives of its species in the world,...

Alicia Simpson, Stephanos Efthymiadis (ed), Niketas Choniates: A Historian and a Writer. La Pomme d’or S.A., Geneva 2011.

 Contents: Introduction, Alicia Simpson, Niketas Choniates: the Historian and Stephanos Efthymiadis, Niketas Choniates: the Writer Paul Magdalino: Prophecy and Divination in the History Anthony Kaldellis: Paradox, Reversal and the...

Paul Magdalino, Maria Mavroudi (ed). The Occult Sciences in Byzantium. La Pomme d’or S.A., Geneva 2006.

 Contents: Paul Magdalino, Maria Mavroudi: Introduction. Maria Mavroudi: Occult Sciences and Society in Byzantium: Considerations for Future Research. Katerina Ierodiakonou: The Byzantine Concept of Sympatheia and its Appropriation in Michael...

Tonia Kiousopoulou, Emperor or Manager: Power and Political Ideology in Byzantium before 1453. La Pomme d’or, Geneva 2011.

https://www.pommedor.ch/emperor.html  Byzantium in the 15th century is too easily dismissed as the anachronistic tail end of an ancient ecumenical empire, whose only achievements, apart from...

Emma Maayan Fanar, Revelation through the Alphabet. Aniconism and Illustrated Initial Letters in Byzantine Artistic Imagination. La Pomme d’or, Geneva 2011.

https://www.pommedor.ch/revelation.html The book explores aniconic tendencies in the post-iconoclastic lectionaries, with special emphasis on illuminated initial letters, unravelling their sources and models and offering an...
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