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Alexandr Radayev
Art · Museums · Humour
- Why, in this painting by Pierre-Auguste Vafflard in the museum at Évreux, is it the girl who carries her beloved in her arms, and not the other way round?
- Because a real woman ought to be 70% concern for her knight and 30% beauty? - The bridegroom has died, and she is kissing his weightless ghost, but your version, too, has a right to exist
Architecture · Art · Observations · Humour
Stealing an obelisk is one thing; getting the blessed thing to stand up is quite another
For anyone who has ever wondered how it was done: like this. One of the 72 reliefs of the frieze of Federico da Montefeltro in Urbino. 15th century
Cinema · Humour
Are You a Historian?
Mood for the evening: Mikhail Bulgakov, Darya Moroz, Igor Mirkurbanov, Ivan Rudin, an orchestra of 70 and Plus Dacha
Archive · Faith · Nature · Humour
Three Rises in the Level of Lake Pleshcheyevo in 1557 and a Religious Procession
On 16 May 1557 the level of Lake Pleshcheyevo rose three times, causing great alarm, and it was decided to hold a religious procession. And, you know, it helped
NB! · Architecture · Cinema · Pop Culture
In "Attack of the Clones", the scenes with Padmé Amidala, Queen of the planet Naboo, and Anakin Skywalker in the city of Theed were filmed in the semicircular gallery of the early twentieth-century Neo-Moorish ensemble of the Plaza de España in Seville
NB! · Monarchies · Mores · Humour
How to ask about your stop if you are riding the bus with Louis XVI or Charles I?
NB! · Books · Monarchies · Humour
Prince Harry in Life vs Prince Harry in Dostoevsky's "Demons"
NB! · Mores · Humour
Crinolines Are a Tricky Business
Archive · Monarchies · Mores · People
Elena, Queen of Poland and daughter of the Russian Tsar Ivan III, wrote to her father in 1503 asking him to send her black sable pelts, and by all means with the fore and hind paws and claws attached
Elena, Queen of Poland and daughter of the Russian Tsar Ivan III, wrote to her father in 1503 asking him to send her black sable pelts, and by all means with the fore and hind paws and claws attached. But by the custom of those years the hunters cut off
NB! · Observations
Apparently, It's Bach
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