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Alexandr Radayev
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Louis XV's cat, General, is apparently unaware that the hare will not be getting up again
Louis XV's cat, General, is apparently unaware that the hare will not be getting up again. Painting by Jean-Baptiste Oudry
NB! · Archaeology · Museums
Skull of a young athlete crowned with a golden Olympic wreath, 1st century AD. Archaeological Museum of Agios Nikolaos
Skull of a young athlete crowned with a golden Olympic wreath, 1st century AD. Archaeological Museum of Agios Nikolaos. In the athlete's mouth lay a silver coin for Charon, so that he might ferry the soul of the deceased across the Styx
NB! · Archaeology · Museums · Observations · Humour
How do you like these conventionally attractive Neanderthals from the Moesgaard Museum of History in Denmark?
How do you like these conventionally attractive Neanderthals from the Moesgaard Museum of History in Denmark? Do you fancy a look at their tools? I think that against such a backdrop, the hand axes from Drenthe, fifty thousand years old, look considerably more interesting than a mere heap of sharpened
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The Administrator in Daylight
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At Home with Karl Lagerfeld, 1982
Architecture · Moscow · Heritage · Nature
Hurricane of 1998 destroyed several Kremlin wall merlons, out of 1044 in total
Three Merlons of the Moscow Kremlin Wall Collapsed in Today's Storm. This is not the first time the merlons of the Kremlin wall have come down. During the storm in the summer of 1998, several of them were likewise destroyed by falling trees. In all, the wall is
NB! · Books · Observations · Education
Taking My MBA in the Library
Faith · Observations · Humour
Saint Pancras in Jewelled Armour, 16th to 19th Centuries
I had a call from the other world, and they told me their most beautiful skeleton had gone missing 😍
Museums · Paris · People · Humour
Now You Too Have Seen Napoleon in His Coffin
Now you too have seen Napoleon in his coffin. In tattered boots. A curious miniature at an exhibition at the French Musée de l'Armée, closing any day now, shows Napoleon as his body was found in 1840 in the grave on the island of Saint Helena: in the
NB! · Aristocracy · Monarchies · Pop Culture · Humour
If you happen to have thirty-five to forty million roubles lying about, you might consider acquiring the tiara of Pauline Bonaparte
If you happen to have thirty-five to forty million roubles lying about, you might consider acquiring the tiara of Pauline Bonaparte. My business is merely to suggest it
Books · Observations · Mores · Humour
Dialogue of Clytemnestra and Electra about Orestes’s childhood, with a nod to Jung
Mothers in every age want obedience from their children and grandchildren from their obedience, and above all obedience in the matter of grandchildren. Forgive me for propping up my thesis with a quotation from Clytemnestra, that very mother, slain by her son Orestes at the instigation of his jealous sister