From Ice Cream to the Messiah
The conversation recently turned, as civilized discourses so often do on a sultry afternoon, to…
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Celestial Etymology
As a recent discourse happily brought us to matters of the firmament, it seems a…
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Under the Sky of Tengri
In one of the halls of the A. Kasteyev State Museum of Arts in Almaty,…
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Herding Cats through the Millennia
The history of our relationship with felines did not begin with mutual endearments, but rather…
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Pollice verso
Here I stand, amidst the weathered stones of an ancient Carthaginian amphitheatre—the very stage where…
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Voices of the Arena
Yet another small and beautiful hall of the Bardo Museum, which has many mosaics with…
