Science · Society · People
The need for certainty has always been stronger than the need for truth
The French anthropologist Gustave Le Bon
Alexandr Radayev
NB! · Archive · Cinema · People
Federico Fellini and Marcello Mastroianni during the filming of "8½", 1963
Archive · London · Monarchies · Society
The British Royal Family on Victory Day in 1945 and in 2025
The series of celebrations marking the 80th anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany has begun not only in Russia and the post-Soviet countries. Britain has been celebrating since yesterday. Yesterday senior members of the royal family joined thousands of people in London to watch a military parade and a
NB! · Coming Up · Geography · Maps · Science
Where Pacifida, or the continent of Mu, is placed and where the idea came from
That very place on earth, rarely shown to the layman, where Pacifida, or the continent of Mu, ought to be found. Where the very idea of it came from, hear in the third episode of my podcast
Archive · Art · Heritage · Science
Getty Research Institute opens access to over 12 million records in updated Provenance Index
The Getty Research Institute has updated its Provenance Index (Getty Provenance Index). The new version offers open access to more than 12 million records drawn from archival inventories, auction catalogues and art dealers' account books, reaching back as far as the sixteenth century. The development of the project reflects
NB! · Observations
Weather, Thank You for the Scenery
Archive · Monarchies · Society · Saint Petersburg
Resolution of the Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet of 9 (22) March 1917:
"In view of information received that the Provisional Government has afforded Nicholas Romanov the opportunity to leave for England, it has been resolved to declare forthwith to the Provisional Government the inflexible will of the Executive Committee not to permit the departure of Nicholas Romanov for England and to
NB! · Observations
The Plan of My Flat
Cinema · Observations · Society
Tariffs and moving film production to the US as the industry falls 40% in two years
Katya, I do wonder how exactly he intends to make California great again. After all, even the American studios have in recent years been striving to move production beyond the borders of the United States because of the exorbitant cost. It turns out that even Britain is cheaper than California,
Geography · Science
The Greek theory of the origin of the name Italy and three other hypotheses
One theory of the origin of the word “Italia” holds that the peninsula was originally named by the Greeks. Legend traces the name to the figure of Italus, grandson of Ulysses and king of the Oenotrians, Arcadian colonists who settled in what is now Calabria, on the western tip of
Archaeology · Architecture · Paris
Buried cities, of course, are not so straightforward
Excavations in Paris, not far from the city's oldest fountain, the Fountain of the Innocents, show what complex feats of engineering lie beneath the visible part of the city. Under every quarter there are, quite literally, unbroken foundations on piles, no smaller than the houses above ground
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