MaNDAHungarian National Digital Archive

Nature study was the common name of the following sciences: zoology, botany, mineralogy, petrology and palaeontology in the 18th and 19th centuries, and it mostly consisted of collecting, systematising and expounding knowledge based on observations. As the expression ‘nature study’ became old-fashioned after the uprise of sciences based on experiments in the 20th century, the denomination ‘natural science’ replaced it. In this week’s virtual exhibition, we have chosen some quotations and illustrations from the natural study works of old times.

Of course not. But why is this idea interesting? According to reading sociological surveys, literature is read by women mostly, at least they say that when they are asked. The changes in reading habits has been a subject of arguments for a long time, especially about the fact that we do not read books, in addition, our children do not read either. Instead of stereotyped phrases, this week, we are looking at what female readers read and how they were approached in the past centuries.

In fact, several people were important characters in the cold war – President Truman, George Marshall and President Eisenhower -, but the real key figure and main character of this story is just one person: Nikita Khrushchev. The evolvement and aggravation of the cold war situation is owing to him mainly. On one hand, his reforms made the Soviet Union determinant economically and strategically, on the other hand, he hindered diplomatic relations with his unpredictable and labile mentality, forcing the leaders of the great Western powers to stand on the defensive.

The building of the Damjanich János Museum of Szolnok is 160 years old this year, but besides this, it is also interesting because it is among the few buildings that preserved something from the heydays of the former plains town, thus safeguarding the past. This week, we are going to Szolnok.

As of ancient times, members of human communities have aspired to show somehow their belonging to a relational, ethnic, religious group, or their status in the group. The appearance of blazons can be related mostly to the tradition of making personal emblems and seals, which goes back to the Bronze Age. Using a strategic identifier as a sign spread in the era of knights in the 12th century. In the beginning, it was necessary due to military technological reasons.