I can’t remember the first time I looked at the Moon, nor when I realised that it was a hunk of rock rather than a ball of cheese. As far back as I can recall it has always been there, a fact as plain as the sky is blue, a constant companion as...
Peter the Great's famous Kunstkammer (Cabinet of Curios) is located on the Spit of Vasilyevsky Island in Leningrad, not far from the main block of the University. It is one of the city's first stone buildings. Construction of the building intended...