NB! · Nature · Humour
Alexandr Radayev
NB! · Cinema · Monarchies · People
Stills from the film version of the Vakhtangov Theatre's production “Paul I”, about the complex and enigmatic life of the Emperor, which holds a great many secrets, with Alexander Oleshko in the title role
Moscow · Science · Education · Palaeontology
Terms from the chorus of a palaeontological song by Moscow students of the 1950s
Student, step out faster, for oysters wait for us in the field, and the Jurassic ammonite waits for us in the field, the Vraconian belemnite, the Lutetian nummulite. The opening of a palaeontological song composed by students of the Moscow Institute of Geological Prospecting named after Ordzhonikidze in the 1950s.
NB! · Cinema · Pop Culture · Humour
Let us speak of how Peter Jackson introduced into the plot a middle-management orc who kept arguing with Saruman about the realism of the output targets at the orc factory
Faith · Heritage · Rome
In the little Roman basilica of Santa Maria in Cosmedin, in the left aisle of the church, a reliquary is kept containing the skull of the Christian priest Valentine, who may be that very saint glorified in 496
There were several Christian figures of roughly the same period bearing the name Valentine, and alas, there is no way of establishing precisely which of the surviving remains are those of a saint. But the skull from Santa Maria in Cosmedin is venerated by many
Faith · Art · Museums · Paris · Pop Culture
Wooden figure of Saint Mary Magdalene by Gregor Erhart, La Belle Allemande, 1510, Louvre collection
And photographs of Nicole Kidman from Vogue Australia, 1994, shot by Rocky Schenk
Observations · Mores
A holiday greeting and a reminder that love is the amusement of the gods
Love between two people is the amusement of the gods. Do not forget it. And a happy holiday!
NB! · Geography · Humour
The Geography of the Smoker and the Geography of the Healthy Man
Faith · Museums · Heritage
Forty items, including seven 17th-century icons, return to the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum
Forty historic objects have returned to the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve after restoration. Among them are 7 icons of the seventeenth century from the monasteries of the Russian North: Ferapontov, Kirillo-Belozersky and the Nilo-Sorsky Hermitage, restored by specialists of the Saint Tikhon's Orthodox Humanitarian University (PSTGU)
Books · Science · People
Pushkin on Lomonosov's poetry and its influence on literature
In Lomonosov there is neither feeling nor imagination. His odes are tiresome and bombastic. His influence on literature was harmful and is still felt in it today. Pomposity, affectation, an aversion to simplicity and precision, an absence of all national character and originality: such are the traces Lomonosov left behind.
NB! · Faith · Art · Paris
The Conversion of Saint Paul, Laurent de La Hyre, 1637
The Conversion of Saint Paul, Laurent de La Hyre, 1637. Notre-Dame de Paris
NB! · Art · Observations · Education · Humour
A 1608 engraving on the choice between study and entertainment
Study or amusements. 1608. A choice for which we have failed to prepare in 400 years