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This is what the system for transporting volumes from the stacks to the issue desk looks like at the Lenin Library
Books · People · Pop Culture
Valentin Gaft's poem addressed to Yuri Vizbor on contemporary pop music
Pop music rakes our souls with shrapnel, You cannot haul it into court for that. Part of a generation grew up on nonsense, And a new one is being born in delirium… Oh, “Forest Sun”, wondrous song! How we sang in captivity, we oddballs! Freedom came, and more interesting became
NB! · Architecture
Palais Royal, Amsterdam
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Susan Hampshire married in 1967 in a Dior dress with organza daisies
A Dior dress with hundreds of organza daisies. The actress Susan Hampshire wore it on her wedding day in 1967
NB! · Observations
How can one not love the age in which we live?
Science · People · Humour
After the Nobel Prize, Carlsberg gave Niels Bohr a house with a pipeline for beer
After 47-year-old Niels Bohr received the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms", the Carlsberg brewery offered him an unlimited supply of beer. And so that Bohr might avail himself of the offer more conveniently, Carlsberg presented him
Art
The goddess Fortuna, blindfolded, with enough hands to bring luck to everyone
15th century
Art · Moscow · Museums · Society Pages
Exhibition of Alexander Yulikov's work from over 50 years opens at the Tretyakov Gallery
An exhibition of the outstanding master of geometric abstraction, the first Russian minimalist Alexandr Yulikov, has opened at the Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val. The display brings together works spanning more than 50 years, which allows one to trace the development of the artist's method and his turn
Faith · Heritage · Society
Cages of the executed leaders of the Münster Rebellion on the tower of St Lambert’s Church
For almost 500 years now, three iron cages, each weighing two hundred kilograms, have hung from the bell tower of St Lambert's Church in Germany. In them the bodies of the executed leaders of the Münster Rebellion of 1534-1535 were put on public display. The Anabaptist uprising,
NB! · Architecture · Paris · Pop Culture
Hubert de Givenchy's Green Drawing Room
Art · Observations · Mores
Painting by Frederick William Elwell, 1911, of a woman in black beside an open chest
Remembering what the wedding dress cost. Frederick William Elwell, 1911