Аnthropology

Rough, painful love affair between Erich Maria Remarque and Marlene Dietrich has turned a chimera for both. However for us it turned into stirring book - «Arch of Triumph» that has opened and glorified «a drink of meeting and parting» - Norman Calvados.

This automobile was the center of political intrigues and caused stratification of society...

How has it happened that both conservative tweed and madness of modern designers are attributes of English style?

Everything related to this manuscript is strange: personality of the author and the problems experienced by everyone who tries to explore it...

In the valley of Loire one can find castles for all tastes: fantastic or mysterious, full of intrigues or poetry, with phantoms or love legends. But you have to take some pains to find the one that tells about true medieval life of real people.

This small bottle containing dark liquid unites Casanova, Lukretsia Borgia, Luciano Pavarotti and other sonorous names. Its content was used as a medicine, aphrodisiac and seasoning. But in the bottle there is just a vinegar...

«Fazer» is not only popular Finnish brand, but also well-known dynasty of businessmen. Its present, fourth generation is sure, that without love and fidelity to family values, «Fazer» would not have achieved today's success.

Symbol of luxurious life in ancient time and the basis for prosperity of the whole island today, Columbus's dream and pride of Greeks from Chios, powerful antiseptics and popular seasoning — this is mastiha reisin.

Honor? de Balzac wrote: «A man is worth his cravat (tie), -it’s he himself, he covers his essence by it, his spirit becomes apparent in it». But where does this fashion to tie anything on neck, that gained such significant popularity at the turn of the XVIII-XIX centuries come from? It appears that reply to this question should be searched exactly in Croatia.

This wine is born by love and jealousy, it nearly caused a war, entered the history of arts and annals of special services. Its native land — blest Tuscan, and its name — Chianti.

Each Englishman is a bit of gardener by nature. If he does not grow flowers and plants, he will admire what others have done. And it’s no wonder, that parks became one of the symbols of Foggy Albion. «Public house » Perhaps, it is not difficult to imagine a pub without Great Britain, but to imagine GB without pubs is nonsense. They are not just attributes of «old England», they are a part of life of contemporary Englishmen.

Shrines of three world religions and monuments of several disappeared civilizations are nearby here on a small plot of land surrounded by ancient wall.

The first sentences of the special church law court, «inquisition» in Latin, first were announced at the beginning of XIII century — everybody knows it. But it’s unlikely everybody knows that the last victims of inquisition were executed less than two hundred years ago.