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Alexandr Radayev
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Masquerade costumes of spring, the sun and a witch in a fashion plate of 1880
1880. Costumes of spring, the little sun and the witch. The sun has a golden fringe over the groin area, the witch a skirt of snakes and bats. Accordingly, the little girl in flowers is spring.
NB! · Archive · Faith · Art · Monarchies
A Hairy Knight from a Fourteenth-Century Bible Made for Wenceslaus, King of Germany and Bohemia
A hairy knight from a fourteenth-century Bible made for Wenceslaus, King of Germany and Bohemia. In his hands the knight holds a gules shield with a silver lion, the ancient coat of arms of Bohemia
Observations · Education · Humour
Phrase about summer as an example of solecism and the term's origin in the city of Soli
Many people use the expression "how I spent this summer". Honestly, few things in this world put me on edge, but this phrase positively drives me out of my mind. Consider: how (who?) [I] (did what?) [spent] (what?) [this summer]. It is perfectly obvious! "How I spent
Archive · London · Observations · Mores · Humour
An 1860 Ladies' Guide to Beauty offered Englishwomen a curious recipe for reducing the size of the bust
An 1860 Ladies' Guide to Beauty offered Englishwomen a curious recipe for reducing the size of the bust. Ladies who were not troubled by any general plumpness of constitution, yet suffered from an excessive development of the bosom, might resolve the difficulty by means of a surgical operation. The
Aristocracy · Faith · Moscow · Mores · Humour
Prince Yusupov served the Moscow Metropolitan goose instead of fish and lost half his property
Abdul Mirza Yusufov, christened Dmitry and granted the title of Prince Yusupov by Feodor Ioannovich, once decided to play a joke on the Metropolitan of Moscow and served him goose on a fast day in the guise of fish. The Metropolitan was deeply offended and petitioned the Tsar to punish
NB! · The East · Art · Books
Reflections in a well in Indian illustrations to a 13th-century Arabic poem
Look at these reflections in the well! Simply mesmerising ❤️ Illustrations to a thirteenth-century Arabic poem, made in India
NB! · Art · Museums
Colossal tapestry of Anne of Brittany transported in rolled form
It looks like an enormous cigar, but this is how large canvases are transported. Before you is a colossal tapestry of Anne of Brittany
NB! · Science · Palaeontology · Nature
Mother's milk survived 42,000 years in the stomach of Lyuba, a baby mammoth from Yamal
Little Lyuba of Yamal still has her mother's milk in her tummy, 42,000 years on. It is thought that the one-year-old Lyuba drowned in clay, and that her body was preserved thanks to lactobacilli
Archive · Monarchies · Observations · Humour
"When God decides that the time has come for me to get better, then it will happen, but not before, and they would do well to behave properly so that the time may truly come," by 1909 Empress Alexandra Feodorovna felt…
On the one hand, the position is correct and profound; on the other, after such pronouncements one cannot help thinking: "what if Nicholas really would have been better off with Mathilde?" Ps I rather like the formula in general, and I sometimes blackmail my own parents in the
NB! · Archive · Observations · Society · People
Alla Gerber and Law Faculty Classmates by a Poster on the Independence of Judges
The spirit of the age is Alla Gerber and her fellow law students smiling beside a poster that reads "Judges are independent and subject only to the law". The cult of personality had been denounced only recently, and hopes still glimmered...
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Caricature of 1796 showing how ladies' dress was expected to look in the near future
Ladies' dress as it was expected to look in the near future more than 200 years ago. Well, the future has arrived