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Salvador Dalí's Lobster Telephone alongside other kinds of telephone
Pay phone, phone with answering machine, mobile phone, oh yes, lobster phone. You are calling Salvador Dalí
NB! · Archive · Monarchies · People · Saint Petersburg
A rare photograph of Tsarevich Nikolai Alexandrovich, the future Emperor Nicholas II, in the uniform of the Life-Guards Ataman Regiment of His Imperial Highness the Heir Tsarevich
A rare photograph of Tsarevich Nikolai Alexandrovich, the future Emperor Nicholas II, in the uniform of the Life-Guards Ataman Regiment of His Imperial Highness the Heir Tsarevich. Saint Petersburg, Wesenberg & Co. studio, 1880s.
NB! · Observations · Humour
Stop the World, I Want to Get Off
In the Press · Society · Paris · People
Durov and Zuckerberg and Western advice on platform moderation
Sergey Lavrov on the detention of Pavel Durov:. Durov turned out to be too free. He was too “slow”, or else did not “listen” at all, to Western advice on the “moderation” of his “brainchild”. After all, what is happening is not only about him. M. Zuckerberg was summoned before
NB! · Cinema · Observations · Mores
I think many would be surprised, having booked a first-class ticket on the Titanic, to find themselves in a cabin like this rather than in a vast, gilded suite such as Rose's in James Cameron's film
NB! · Archive · Architecture · The East · Heritage
The walls of Constantinople on the shore of the Sea of Marmara in the Kumkapı district, photographed in the 1870s by the Assyrian-Armenian photographer Pascal Sébah and the Frenchman Polycarpe Joaillier
Archive · Faith · Society
Leo XIII in the encyclical Rerum Novarum on class hatred and labour
The Encyclical Rerum Novarum: An Open Letter from Pope Leo XIII on the Relations between Government, Business, Workers and the Church. The letter was made public less than 50 years after Marx and Engels published the Communist Manifesto in 1848, which declares and justifies the aims, tasks and methods of
Architecture · Heritage · Society · Paris
The Eiffel Tower was listed as a historic monument on 24 June 1964 and as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1991, yet the Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, has decided to keep the Olympic logo on the Eiffel Tower even after the Games are over, that is…
The Eiffel Tower was listed as a historic monument on 24 June 1964 and as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1991, yet the Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, has decided to keep the Olympic logo on the Eiffel Tower even after the Games are over, that is, an enormous
Architecture · Moscow · Heritage · Education
Young Sechenov students celebrate the Day of Knowledge in a world-famous monument of Soviet avant-garde architecture, the Club of the Kauchuk Factory designed by the architect Konstantin Melnikov
Young Sechenov students celebrate the Day of Knowledge in a world-famous monument of Soviet avant-garde architecture, the Club of the Kauchuk Factory designed by the architect Konstantin Melnikov. A decade-long history of neglect, which had brought this monument of Constructivism to a dilapidated state, ended with restoration
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The Regatta in Venice, 18 September 1881
Faith · Society · People · Rome
Meetings of John Paul II with Reagan and other American politicians
The chief anti-Soviets of their time: Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II. Officially, Reagan met John Paul II at least four times: in June 1982 at the Vatican, in May 1984 in Alaska, in June 1987 at the Vatican and in September 1987 in Miami. In addition, John