View from space of the Volga Delta: branching river channels across a brown plain, a greenish sea above and clouds below.

NB! · Geography · Nature

The Volga Delta, the Largest in Europe, in a Photograph by Cosmonaut Sergey Ryazansky

The largest river delta in Europe, the Volga Delta, seen from space. Photo by our cosmonaut Sergey Ryazansky

NB! · Faith · Observations · Rome

Snowballs in Saint Peter's Square in Rome, 2018

NB! · Art · Museums · Paris

Man Created by Prometheus and Brought to Life by Athena

Man Created by Prometheus and Brought to Life by Athena. Ceiling painting in the Louvre. By Jean-Simon Berthélemy and Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse, 1802 and 1826.

NB! · Archive · Observations · Paris

Paris ❤️ Photographs by Alain Cornu

A reddish-brown nude figure dives headfirst toward a strip of water beside a ladder-like tower; two bare trees and corner ornaments frame the cracked plaster slab.

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Fresco from the Tomb of the Diver at Paestum: a figure mid-dive

Archaeology · Art

The painting of the so-called Tomb of the Diver, 480 BC, at Paestum, a Greek colony in Italy

The painting of the so-called Tomb of the Diver, 480 BC, at Paestum, a Greek colony in Italy. This rarest example of fresco painting from the period of Classical Greece shows not merely a youth diving into a pool or the sea, but a man making the leap into

Archive · Geography · Society · People

A Secret History

A Secret History. Margaret Thatcher, aged 57, Prime Minister of Great Britain, pirate, witch and murderess. Guilty! Margaret Thatcher as a pirate in the Argentine press after Britain's invasion of the Malvinas, or Falkland Islands, in 1982. The islands remain a disputed territory: Argentina regards them as occupied

NB! · Geography · Maps

Topographical and Political Map of Africa

Miniature diorama in a display case: a golden lattice ship atop a hill, a helicopter beside it, tiny figures on the slope and the words VADA A BORDO CAZZO.

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Diorama of a lattice ship on a sandy hill with a helicopter

White model of a colonnaded building with a portico under a glass cover, with a garden and red-and-blue windsock cones in front. A screen below reads «Vitruvian Man».

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Ponomarev's Vitruvian Man model: museum building with red-and-blue windsocks

Art · Moscow · Museums · Paris

At the Engineering Building of the Tretyakov Gallery: an exhibition of the remarkable Russian artist Alexander Ponomarev, "I Am Mad Only at North-North-West", gathering models of his world-famous works from Venice and Paris, Egypt and Japan, Moscow and…

The exhibition is intimate, yet Ponomarev does not feel cramped in this modest space: his spirit lives in the open expanse of the world's elements and takes form in works whose driving forces are the surface of the sea and the canopy of the sky, the might of

A long bed of blue glass shards with curved glass panels on metal fittings fills a museum hall. Round projections glow on the walls, and a visitor walks at right.

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Alexandr Radayev