Historic Monument - In just five years since the May 1950 publication of Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, Dianetics and Scientology had expanded from one foundation to an international organization headquartered in Phoenix,...
205 years since the death of one of the most influential women of the 19th century
Anna Stahl, or as her full name is - Anne Louise Germain de Stahl, who became known as Madame...
It is a real architectural masterpiece, but it is also a monument to a sad story about a mother's grief over her lost child
On the eternally green and unearthly beautiful island of Corfu, there...
Colombia, Spain and a Bolivian tribe dispute whose galleon and its riches sunk in the Caribbean sea
At the end of May 1708, the Spanish galleon "San Jose" set sail from Panama for the homeland....
In the laboratory of the Bavarian Monuments Authority in Bamberg, scientists have begun thawing a block of ice containing remains from an elite 6th-century burial. The block was specially created by archaeologists using liquid...
The famous ancient military leader died at the age of 58 on his wedding night, after marrying his new wife.
The leader of the ancient tribe of the Huns, Attila, terrified the inhabitants of both...
Roscosmos and NASA have signed an ISS cross-flight agreement under which the agencies will launch mixed crews of Russian and American cosmonauts on their spacecraft. The first two flights under the agreement will take...
The story of Elena Perminova - Walking through the latest fashion shows in the Tuileries Garden in Paris, it is impossible to miss the crowd of stars in Russian style. They are girls with...
It is open to children over 6 years of age
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the law "On the Russian Movement of Children and Youth" yesterday, and the document was published on the official portal...
The mummy, which is more than two and a half thousand years old, has been kept in Novosibirsk for 30 years, reports Alina Guritzkaya for Sibkray.ru.
The body of a man was found by scientists...
The earliest known depictions of two biblical heroines were recently discovered by a team of archaeologists at the ancient synagogue of Hukok in the Lower Galilee.
The Huqoq Excavation Project is entering its 10th season....
In Monaco, after a two-year break due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Rose Ball (Bal de la Rose) was again held - a charity evening in support of the Grace Kelly Foundation.
Princess Caroline of...
Two American businessmen bought 300 bottles of champagne to treat all the customers at a restaurant on the island of Mykonos. The €54,000 bill was rounded up to €60,000 to allow for a tip.
The...
The news ends the long-standing feud between the heirs of the Italian composer
The house where composer Giuseppe Verdi lived for 50 years is for sale. The news ends the long-standing feud between the Italian...
Patristics as Orthodox self-identity
Whether by coincidence or as a trend, in recent times Orthodox patristic studies have shown an increased interest in the nature of patristics - as such, as well as in the...
Author: Prof. Plamen Pavlov
In 1194, King Assen I defeated the Byzantine army in the Battle of Arkadiopol (Lozengrad) in "Macedonia" - Eastern Thrace
The episode with the Georgian Liparites completes our knowledge of the Bulgarian-Byzantine...
The editor-in-chief of the Orthodox encyclopedia Drevo, Alexander Ivanov, will be tried under the new law for "discrediting the Russian armed forces", which represses anyone who publicly disagrees with the Russian war in Ukraine....
By Myrna Kostash
I began writing this post near the end of February 2022, on tenterhooks along with much of the world about the likelihood of a war being unleashed by Russian military forces on...
Billionaire and businessman Leonardo Del Vecchio has died at the age of 87, Reuters reports.
He is the owner of the French-Italian corporation EssilorLuxottica, established in 2018. The company owns the brands Ray-Ban, Oakley, Michael...
The honorary doctorate awarded by Swiss university to former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini will not be revoked, although it is a "serious mistake", said a commission dealing with the case.
The University of Lausanne (UNIL)...
A Scottish archaeologist has proposed his hypothesis to explain the extremely small number of human remains on the battlefield of Waterloo.
Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo. Painting by Robert Alexander Hillingford, second...
Female circumcision is the partial or complete removal of the external genitalia without the medical need to do so
About 200 million girls and women who now live on planet Earth have undergone the extremely...
The authorities of the Mediterranean resort in Spain have warned tourists that it is not safe to urinate in the Mediterranean Sea, because. for such unsanitary actions face a huge fine. The relevant law...