In our social-media era, the boundary between what we portray as true and what is false is growing increasingly thin. The decision of how we present ourselves on social media has a significant impact on our mental well-being.

Museum exhibits and collections can be presented in a variety of ways. Studying how museum displays have developed over the years can tell us much about the history of science.

Celem artykułu jest ukazanie wartości tekstów, które przetrwały w więcej niż jednej wersji, w badaniach nad przyczynami zaniku słów. Wybrany materiał obejmuje sześć nieużywanych obecnie angielskich czasowników z grupy preterite-present. Przeanalizowane średniowieczne manuskrypty często wykazują różnice ortograficzne i morfologiczne, a także różnią się użytymi leksemami. Różnice te są cennym materiałem dla badań nad czynnikami, które spowodowały zanik tych czasowników.

The article is devoted to contemporary studies on the nineteenth century memoirs written by Russian women. In the nineteenth century women’s memoirs were underestimated and neglected by researchers. Recently, there has been a signifi cant increase in research interest in memoirs written by women. This subject has been taken up by literary scholars, historians, experts on cultural studies and anthropologists. A. Bielova, I. Savkina, W. Laszczak, K. Kosowska, N. Pushkariova, A. Fieduta, W. Ponomarieva, L. Khoroshilova, J. Prikazchikova, A. Stankewich, J. Samofalova, O. Mamaieva, S. Tatarkina are among those who are interested in it. Memoirs are a valuable source of information about the epoch, historical events, outstanding leaders, event-making fi gures, Russian intellectual elites, aristocracy as well as the everyday life of the Russian gentry. They also provide some insight into the way female memoirists expressed themselves in their writings, their views on femininity and the role of women in society.

The relevance of the study is due to the fact that the influence of the Internet and media resources is growing and there is a tendency to develop virtual personalities that have little to do with reality and show the features of an antisocial person. In this regard, this article is aimed at identifying aspects and characteristics of a network personality that is influenced by modern media resources. The leading methods of studying this problem are methods of analysis, deduction and classification, which will help to recognize the most basic aspects of the figurative-visual transformation of a person on the Internet, show the results of the influence of social networks on a person and demonstrate the changes that a person is exposed to in the Internet space. The article reveals and substantiates the features and aspects that are distinctive for an individual in the Internet society, negative and positive characteristics of Internet users. The author substantiates the daily interactivity of social media. Also, the most relevant and influential forms of network interaction are shown and the frequency of their use is analysed. The materials of the article are of practical value for students, teenagers, youth, parents, future teachers who should know the aspect of the manifestation of personality transformation in the Internet space.

The article is a review of the book by Francois Hartog Regimes d'historicite.

In the article the Author discusses the problem of works devoted to the January Uprising of 1863, prepared by Polish historians for the 50th anniversary of the event. She asks what was the character of the various publications printed on consecutive anniversaries of the uprising, and - more broadly - what were the social functions of these texts. Answering the question. Author claims that these publications had social role going far beyond the traditional, scientific function of a typical historic text

Autor prezentuje osobisty, często krytyczny obraz trzech miast — najlepiej znanych mu, szczególnie ulubionych i bliskich. Pomimo znajomości dziesiątek najbardziej renomowanych miast w świecie, autor wybrał przykłady maksymalnie rodzime, z którymi był i jest personalnie związany. Podlegały one w rodowodzie historycznym — poprzez tok dziejów — dramatycznym wydarzeniom. Pod względem kreacji przestrzennych ulegały — także obecnie — płynnym, hybrydowym, ambiwalentnym, często kontrowersyjnym przemianom. Zostały zarazem potraktowane domyślnie, jako swoiste, subiektywnie ujęte modele miast w ogóle — także ich losu i ewolucji. Autor uznaje miasto jako — być może — najznakomitszy wyraz ludzkiej kultury i cywilizacji.

The first part of this article brings the author’s reply to the participants of the panel discussion of his book Culture as Verb (Anna Łebkowska, Jakub Momro, Tomasz Rakowski and Dorota Wolska). In the second part he outlines his premises and explains the analytical vocabulary that has enabled him to move from an active to a passive ‘verbal’ understanding of culture. He also draws a broad outline of prospective new research that would complement his project. Central to it is the exploration of what he believes is the dominant contemporary cultural experience, which is based on active participation. To characterize its most important features and forms we should make use of the following, newly defi ned analytical concepts – passivity, the present moment, immersion, and testimonial authority.

Bertrand Russell formulated neutral monism by default, unguided by any strong idea of a uniform, monistic world. Apparently he worked under the urge to liberate philosophy from the quarrel between physicalists and idealists. But he did not succeed in defusing the controversy, instead he fanned it with his fresh ideas. He argued that matter was indestructible, that some mental regularities occurred independently of our will, and that they unfold as if guided by natural laws. He claimed that some conscious states were to be interpreted as objective events despite the fact that they were accessible only privately. But the concurrence between physical and mental facts indicated a similarity between the principles that guided them, or pointed to their singular common nature. He did not undertake to defend his unitary theory vigorously and did not claim it was indisputable. Possibly he hoped to find an additional support for his theory some day and this paper responds to this unspoken request.