Russia today celebrates one of its annual state holidays – the International Women’s Day. As befits the status of the holiday, we are all having a day-off, so even though this is Tuesday, ...
The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody’s word about them. Henry Bolingbroke, the ...
Library no. 166, Nagorny Boulevard, 3 (Moscow, Russia) Carola Huttmann has once narrated her childhood experience of visiting the library, looking for books, using the library card. I certainly share ...
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. Anais Nin, a French-Cuban author....
I hope you are enjoying the regular (daily) pearls of wisdom from great people of our huge planet. Coming up this month are articles for Moscow Churches and Moscow Architecture. The idea for the forme...
Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. Hans Christian Andersen, a Danish author....
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – esse...
Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. Vince Lombardi, a football coach. Image is courtesy of VinceLombard...
Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. Coco Chanel, a French designer....
In 1987 Alla Sourikova, one of the “big” female names in Soviet/Russian cinema, made a comic interpretation of the story of the Wild West and the introduction of celluloid film to the Unit...