Observations · Nature

I Dream of Visiting This Field

Photo: Space Cowboy

Aerial view of a grass-covered hillfort with several rings of earth ramparts surrounded by fields.

NB! · Archaeology · Architecture · Heritage

Maiden Castle in Dorchester, the largest Iron Age fortification in Europe

Maiden Castle in Dorchester, England, is the largest Iron Age fortification in Europe. The castle was built in the 600s BC and is, in principle, still fit for its original purpose: one need only add a palisade and a few simple buildings, and voilà, ready for defence!

NB! · Archaeology · The East · Art

Wrestlers on Greek coins of the 5th–4th centuries BC from Aspendos, an ancient Greco-Roman city in Antalya Province

End wall of a high-rise residential block painted with warped balconies that create the illusion of a bending façade, seen against the evening sky.

NB! · Architecture · Art

Street art by Shozy on the firewall of a residential tower block in Zheleznodorozhny

This house has gone mad. A superb piece of street art on the blind end wall of a multi-storey block of flats in the town of Zheleznodorozhny, by the artist Shozy.

A tablet on a pale wall shows an abstract composition: a yellow blob, a blue wavy line, thin lines and dots on a light blue background. Black headphones hang below.

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Screen with abstract animation and headphones on an exhibition wall

Photo of a screen: a view down a narrow staircase with wrought-iron railings, a brick wall, bundled newspapers and crates at the bottom. Colors are distorted.

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Staircase with railings and bundled newspapers on a TV screen

NB! · Art · Museums · Paris

Rembrandt, Lion Resting, 1645/1650, Louvre collection

Observations · Humour

By the way, according to one version, after her death Helen of Troy became the wife of Achilles

Death could have overtaken Helen, for example, by way of a sea nymph who appeared in the guise of a seal

Painting of a wide river with a many-arched stone bridge, town houses and a large dome under an overcast sky. People in 18th-century dress stand on the bank beside boats.

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Painted view of the Elbe, a stone bridge and the Frauenkirche dome in Dresden

NB! · Architecture · Heritage · Society

Over three days, from 13 to 15 February 1945, Anglo-American aircraft all but destroyed the ancient German city of Dresden

NB! · Archive · Art · Mores

Terrifying Physiognomic Pictures