NB! · Geography · Maps · Observations
Alexandr Radayev
NB! · Books · Humour
Thanks to a compositor's error, Lensky's fate might have seemed far more enviable
Art · Monarchies · Mores
Fortification billiards in France with arches, gates and a mallet instead of a cue
Louis XIV Plays His Favourite Game, Billiards, 1694. Note the cue, which resembles a little mallet. Look at the billiard table. First, it has no pockets. Second, a post and an arch stand upon it. What are they? This is a variety popular in France: fortification billiards. For this game
NB! · Art · Moscow · Society
"Big Clay No. 4" is being removed from Bolotnaya Embankment
Archive · Heritage · Society
Insurgents destroy the eight-metre statue of Stalin during the 1956 Hungarian Uprising
The shattered figure of Stalin during the Hungarian Uprising, 23 October - 10 November 1956. The insurgent crowd brought down the eight-metre statue of Stalin erected for his seventieth birthday, leaving only the boots, into which a Hungarian flag was planted. The disfigured head lay for a long time in
Art · Observations
Comparing the figure by the water in paintings by Caravaggio and Waterhouse
Caravaggio's Narcissus and Waterhouse's Narcissus. Caravaggio's is stern and sombre, set against an abstract landscape in dramatic light. No stream, no wood: only black emptiness and a reflection. Waterhouse's is poetic and dreamy. Wrapped in a red cloak and crowned with green,
NB! · Society · Nature · Humour
It Turns Out That Biden's Hyperborea Is Neither a Diagnosis nor Even a Country, but a Plant of the Daisy Family
NB! · Faith · Art
The Incredible Detail of Simon Marmion's "Scenes from the Life of Saint Bertin", 1459
Faith · The East · Society
Number of churches in Saudi Arabia: 0
The laws of the country forbid the construction of places of worship not belonging to Islam
Faith · Society · People
Gender ideology is a Luciferian refusal to accept from God the nature of sex
Gender ideology is a Luciferian refusal to accept from God the nature of sex. It is the supreme rebellion against the Creator Cardinal Robert Sarah
NB! · Books · Observations · People · Humour
Jean Baudrillard and His Mad Bookcase
Jean Baudrillard and his mad bookcase. Or rather, not a bookcase at all, but some sort of book-trap. Just try reading without being buried under an avalanche of books.
NB! · Art · Pop Culture · Ethnography