Observations · Society · Humour
An old printed text on how little intellect it takes to invent new tidings
A Journalist's Memorandum:. Inventing fresh news requires no great store of intellect
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The Morning of a Telegram Channel Admin
"What news have you?" "I have heard nothing." "How can you have heard nothing, when you are always in the company of great men?" "No, Your Excellency, nothing has been said to me." "That cannot be; at the very least you
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As Ksenia Sobchak Would Say: Such Is Life
Books · Mores · Education · People
Leo Tolstoy on why parents send their children away to gymnasium
Why do parents send their <children> away from home to the gymnasium? It suddenly became clear to me. If parents kept their <children> at home, they would see the consequences of their own immoral life in their children. Leo Tolstoy
Books · Observations · Humour
Umberto Eco on why one should buy more books than one can read
It is foolish to think that one must read every book one has bought, just as it is foolish to criticise those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It is the same as saying that one must use up every fork, glass, screwdriver or
NB! · Cinema · Pop Culture · Humour
As they said in "Charmed", the power of three will set us free!
Faith · Science · Nature · Rome
The legend of the sacred geese of the Capitol and the Gallic sack of Rome in 390 BC
The Sacred Geese before the Temple of Juno Moneta on the Capitoline Hill. The historical chronicles, including the works of Titus Livius, offer no reliable confirmation that it was the geese who played the decisive part in saving the Capitol. The legend seems rather to have arisen as a symbolic
Faith · Society
The Synaxis of the Holy Innocents of Bethlehem
This icon recalls the 14,000 infant souls slaughtered by order of the tetrarch Herod. The murdered children of Bethlehem are venerated as the first martyrs for Christ. Today this icon is prayed before by parents who, following the example of Herod, have dealt with their own children by destroying
NB! · Geography · Nature
The floor of the Pacific Ocean is very interesting
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Do You Love Unboxing as I Love It?
Archive · Moscow · Observations · Society
Moscow's Theatre Square in the 1930s decorated with tractor models for May Day
I was leafing through an album of photographs of 1930s Moscow and came upon a picture of Theatre Square decked out for May Day with outline models of tractors and ploughs. You know, for all the naivety and artlessness of such agitational dressing of urban spaces, it looks far better
NB! · Art
“The Voice of Space”: René Magritte Unrecognisable
“The Voice of Space”: René Magritte unrecognisable. 1928