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Have a good weekend, everyone
Cinema · Paris · Pop Culture
⚡️Something Beautiful for the Night ⚡️
A shoot by Ellen von Unwerth for Ulyana Sergeenko's new collection, with Natalia Vodianova and Katya Letskaya, Ulyana herself and her daughter Vasilisa (attention, please), held on a ranch in the outskirts of Paris. I would never have thought such a thing existed. It turns out that Ellen
NB! · Mores
A Few Words on the Difficulties of Legendary, or Rather Mythical, Couples
Faith · The East · Books
The Bhagavad Gita on the immortality of the soul and endurance of grief and pleasure
You grieve for those not worth grieving for, though your thoughts are the thoughts of wise men. The wise man grieves neither for death nor for life. Never was there a time when I, and you, and all the Princes of the earth did not exist, and never shall we
NB! · Cinema · London · Pop Culture · Society Pages
Hugh Bonneville posts a photo of the greatest British actors of our time at the celebration of Noël Coward's 125th anniversary: Derek Jacobi, 86, Judi Dench, nearly 90, Ian McKellen, 85
Hugh Bonneville has posted a photo of the greatest British actors of our time at the celebration of Noël Coward's 125th anniversary: Derek Jacobi, 86, Judi Dench, nearly 90, Ian McKellen, 85. The dinosaurs are still in the ranks 💥
NB! · Archive · Books · People
J. R. R. Tolkien with his three-year-old son Christopher in a photograph from 1928
Professor J. R. R. Tolkien and his three-year-old son Christopher, 1928
Art
The most expensive auction sale of a Surrealist painting: "The Empire of Light" (1954) by René Magritte
The most expensive auction sale of a Surrealist painting: "The Empire of Light" (1954) by René Magritte. The sum of $121 million is also the highest price ever paid for a Magritte. The artist's previous record stood at $79 million; this time, at the Christie'
Archaeology · Cinema · Observations · Heritage
Italian police search for two thieves of Etruscan sarcophagi from a burial site in Umbria
Plunderers of Etruscan Tombs Wanted by Police. The Italian Minister of Culture, Alessandro Giuli, has announced that the Italian authorities have put a stop to illegal excavations of an Etruscan burial site in Umbria, and that the police are now searching for two Etruscan treasure hunters. The wanted men are
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Aerial view of the Kresty prison complex in St Petersburg
Architecture · Heritage · Society · Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg's Kresty Prison to Be Put Up for Sale in the First Quarter of 2025
One of Russia's Most Famous Prisons to Be Sold Off for Museum Complexes and Art Venues. It became known in November 2022 that the Kresty remand prison in Saint Petersburg, built in 1884–1892 to a design by the architect Antony Tomishko, is to be sold, and quite
NB! · Faith · The East · Art · Museums · Paris · Nature
Relief of four baboons from the Temple of Amun at Thebes, Louvre collection
Baboons worshipping the sun. Stone relief from the Theban temple of Amun, Louvre collection