Although Robin has suggested that I should write an Ordsall Hall article for Wikipedia, I didn’t do this yet. Instead I have recently found a lecture read in the fall of 2006 at the University o...
On January 7, one of my friends at the Moscow State University has invited me to join an exclusive online student club. Since then I’ve been finding out all sorts of things about my friends and ...
First of all, my story of (mis)using trains continues this year. Yesterday I was going to Warrington from Manchester Piccadilly. I was going to take 12.07 train to Liverpool. I was on the platform 14 ...
I always knew Paris would be my city – despite the fact that I’ve never been there. And I never actually take interest in different online polls, like this one. But this time it’s di...
In the ancient times nations used to stop wars during the Olympic Games. These days some people realise that sport is not enough, so they propose to use the positive energy of an orgasm to the same en...
…there was a screening of the film Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage by Marc Rothemund. We did an interview with him at Cornerhouse, the article on which you can read here. And on the web t...
One of the biggest differences between England and Russia is the length of Xmas-New Year break. In England, the break has finished today. In Russia, people are relaxing (to a different extent) from De...
Although I didn’t write every single day in December, I managed to make it look like I spent entire December blogging about anything from James Last to shoe sizes. So, this is my post #31, and, ...
The Crusades seem to never have effaced from the Western conscience. Centuries later the conflict between the West and the East resumes....