NB! · Pop Culture · Humour
A medieval miniature compared with the character Eric Cartman
Further proof that Eric Cartman is a recurring character of world culture. "Mum, I need a poo!"
Alexandr Radayev
NB! · Observations
Good morning
NB! · Observations · Pop Culture · Humour
Looking at Brigitte Bardot at the annual charity show for artists in need, the 1970 Gala of the Artistes' Union, and I cannot tell whether they simply look alike to me, or whether Angelina Jolie really does resemble the young Brigitte from this angle
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The Dying Gaul, a marble sculpture in the Capitoline Museums
NB! · Art · Cinema · Museums · Pop Culture · Rome · Humour
Tony Stark, *Captain America: Civil War*, 2016, and the Dying Gaul, Capitoline Museums, 230s BC
NB! · Cinema · London · Monarchies · Pop Culture
Dame Helen Mirren Congratulates Elizabeth II on Her Platinum Jubilee in Elizabethan Dress
NB! · Architecture
A Breton water tower that looks like a knightly castle from the future
Books · Mores · Saint Petersburg
I Knew Two Lovers Who Lived in Petrograd in the Days of the Revolution and Did Not Notice It
Boris Pasternak
NB! · Monarchies · Humour
When they asked who had skipped the opening of Parliament to go to the Royal Horse Show
Art · Books · Mores
The tragic tale of the lovers Paolo and Francesca, slain by his brother and her husband Giovanni, who surprised them together, is known to us thanks to Dante, who placed the story of real historical figures, Francesca da Rimini, Gianciotto and Paolo…
The tragic tale of the lovers Paolo and Francesca, slain by his brother and her husband Giovanni, who surprised them together, is known to us thanks to Dante, who placed the story of real historical figures, Francesca da Rimini, Gianciotto and Paolo Malatesta, in Canto V of the "Inferno&
Books · Observations
Alexander Blok on doves and the bygone times of Paolo and Francesca
What angered me most of all was. That it was not we who were kissing, but the doves, And that the days of Paolo and Francesca are gone. Alexander Blok
Aristocracy · Monarchies
Twins Jean and Margarita of Luxembourg, born on 15 May 1957
On 15 May 1957 the twins Jean and Margaretha were born to Prince Jean of Luxembourg and Princess Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium. Jean and Margaretha were the third and fourth children of their parents. In 1964 their father became Grand Duke of Luxembourg; the country is now ruled by their