Cirsotomiespotat

03/04/2025

Доходный дом К. И. Розенштейна на площади Льва Толстого.
📸 Алексей Заболоцкий.

03/04/2025

Озеро Комо, Италия

03/04/2025

Extra, Extra! 📗

Exactly one hundred years ago this month, on April 10, 1925, WWI veteran F. Scott Fitzgerald first published his novel, The Great Gatsby.

🔗 READ: how Fitzgerald, and the characters in his novel, were deeply shaped by the Great War: https://www.theworldwar.org/learn/about-wwi/borne-back-ceaselessly-past-fitzgerald-gatsby-and-wwi

🥂 JOIN US, OLD SPORT: Join us on April 10, 2025 for Operation: Gatsby, a 1920s-themed soiree including live jazz, a costume contest, a Charleston dance workshop, Prohibition-era libations and small bites, and featuring guest speaker (and NPR book critic) Maureen Corrigan.

🎟️ $25 General Admission / $15 Members. (Limited spots remain!) https://www.theworldwar.org/operation-series

Operation: Gatsby is hosted in partnership with The Museum of Kansas City, Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City Swingout, Kansas City Automotive Museum, Tom's Town Distilling Co., Kansas City Zoo & Aquarium, Kansas City Ballet, KCUR 89.3, Harry S. Truman Library & Museum and The Kansas City Jazz Orchestra.

31/03/2025

31/03/2025

Civilian Public Service (CPS) was a US government program that provided conscientious objectors with an alternative to military service during World War 2. CPS draftees fought forest fires, helped reform an abusive mental health system, and even acted as test subjects in medical experiments.