Faith · Art · Museums · Paris
Cain and Abel, Leonello Spada, 1614
The exhibition of Italian masterpieces "Naples in Paris" at the Louvre
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Hanging censer by a wooden wall with remnants of ornamental painting
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Olav Hanssen's 1784 house with rosemaling decoration in the Heddal museum
Heddal Museum of Traditional Norwegian Folk Art, a house of 1784 built by Olav Hansen. The walls and ceiling are decorated with the folk painting known as rosemaling
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Map of the northern Adriatic with a Plava Laguna marker on the Istrian coast
Cinema · Humour
Incidentally, on Luc Besson and The Fifth Element
Incidentally, on Luc Besson and The Fifth Element. The space diva Plavalaguna, invented by Besson, who performs the aria of Lucia di Lammermoor in the voice of the Albanian opera singer Inva Mula, owes her otherworldly name to the Croatian seaside resort of Plava Laguna, where Luc Besson spent a
NB! · Coming Up · Cinema · Museums · Paris · Pop Culture
Jean-Paul Gaultier's costumes from Luc Besson's The Fifth Element at the Paris Fashion Museum, in the Expo1997 retrospective, open until 17 July
London · Mores · Society
The scale of tea smuggling in England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries reached incredible proportions, almost equalling the country's official imports of tea, some 11,000 tonnes a year
The scale of tea smuggling in England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries reached incredible proportions, almost equalling the country's official imports of tea, some 11,000 tonnes a year. From the early 1700s demand for tea grew without pause. So did the customs duties. The
NB! · Archaeology · Geography · Maps
The Spread of Slavic Culture in the 4th to 7th Centuries
Coming Up · Observations · Pop Culture · Saint Petersburg
Young pianists to perform Chopin, Rachmaninoff and Schubert in 26 Pianissimo concerts
From 1 July to 26 August the Hermitage, GES-2 and the Pakgauzy in Nizhny Novgorod host the Pianissimo summer festival. Twenty-six concerts in which works by Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Mozart and Schubert will be performed by talented young pianists who, in keeping with good tradition, stand at the
Archive · London · Monarchies · Observations
Tsarevich Nicholas and the Duke of York George at a London wedding in 1893
The cousins Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich and George, Duke of York, in 1893, before they became Emperor Nicholas II (in 1894) and King George V (in 1910). The photograph was taken when the Tsarevich Nicholas was in London for the wedding of the Duke of York and Princess Mary of Teck.
NB! · The East · Geography · Maps
The frontiers of Russia (the Fergana Region), China (Kashgaria) and the British possessions (Dardistan) met on a short stretch between the Hindu Kush and the Karakoram range
The frontiers of Russia (the Fergana Region), China (Kashgaria) and the British possessions (Dardistan) met on a short stretch between the Hindu Kush and the Karakoram range. Map of 1909
NB! · Geography · Observations · Nature
Summer solstice on 21 June 2023 at 17:57 Moscow time, the longest day of the year
The summer solstice in 2023 will occur on 21 June at 17:57 Moscow time. A reminder that today is the longest day of the year.