January 1 – New Year Very often the Spaniards spend New Year’s Eve (Noche vieja) on the street, at various festivities, discos, restaurants and bars. Young people often gather in companies in the house of one of the participants in the celebration. In Madrid, a crowd of celebrating traditionally gathers in the central square of… Read More »
International cuisine does not use the phrase Austrian cuisine. Instead, the concept Viennese cuisine is used. It became popular during the Congress of Vienna in the 19th century and immediately competed with French cuisine. Binding to the name of the city should not be misleading, because we are not talking about the culinary traditions of… Read More »
Remarkable are the remains of the Roman and Byzantine period in Croatia, from the Diocletian’s palace in Split to the Euphrasius basilica (6th century) in Poreč. In the 8th -10th century. numerous small churches were built (Greek cross with dome) and various churches with a basilical plan, the cathedrals of Arbe, Zara, Trogir and, in… Read More »
Geographical position The Swiss Confederation (lat. Confederatio Helvetica or CH) is located in the center of Europe, covers an area of 41,284 km², inhabited by 7.7 million people, includes 20 cantons and 6 half-cantons, and borders on five countries: in the north – with Germany, in the east – with Liechtenstein and Austria, in the… Read More »
The Western Influence The period of Peter I the Great marks a radical turning point in literature as well as in Russian history, but in literature its scope will only become visible in the following period. On the death of Peter I, the cultural gap between the Russia and the West, still abysmal when he… Read More »
The text of the new Constitution, promoted by President Yeltsin, was signed on November 8, 1993 and submitted to a referendum for popular approval on December 12 of the same year. The charter made Russia a highly centralized presidential republic, with the conferral of broad powers on the president, including the possibility of dissolving Parliament… Read More »
A few months after its first appearance at the Grand Café in Paris, the Lumière brothers’ cinema made its entrance into the capital of the Russian Empire, sowing the same amazed bewilderment it had produced in the French city. It was May 4, 1896, and with the živye kartiny (living pictures) the opening of the… Read More »
Alexander III, already at the time when he was hereditary prince, gathered around himself the most retrograde elements of the aristocracy and the most reactionary among the intellectuals. While some of his advisers and ministers (in the forefront Loris-Melikov) wanted to continue the policy of severe repression of revolutionary activity, not separated, however, by some… Read More »
From 1951 onwards, the evolution of the Italian economy was characterized, among other things, by a strong increase in salaries per employee, which had its most pronounced peaks in the two-year period 1963-64 and in the following years to 1969. The trend in compensation of employees from 1951 to 1973, as well as the relationships… Read More »
In this sense, the narrative and, to a lesser extent, the theater also offer numerous and different confirmations. Indeed, it can be said that compared to poetry they act as a more immediate point of reference for a critical clarification, given the extreme eloquence of the contents that are proposed. Many uncertainties were already at… Read More »