NB! · Art

Oskar Zwintscher, Grief, 1898

Black-and-white portrait of a man in round glasses with thick dark eyebrows and moustache, holding a cigar beside his cheek.

Cinema · People · Humour

Portrait of American comedian Groucho Marx with a cigar and round glasses

Inside every old man is a young man wondering what happened. American comedian Groucho Marx

Black-and-white photo: a man in a suit cuts a seated woman's hair while three women in tunics stand in line beside him, one holding a peaked cap.

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Haircut in a barbershop: three women in military-style tunics waiting their turn

Society · Saint Petersburg

Women's Battalions of Death in 1917 and the Losses of Maria Bochkareva's Battalion

In 1917, military units made up of women volunteers, troubled by the fate of Russia, appeared on the fronts of the First World War. Women had served in the imperial army before, but these were isolated cases. Initially, however, the women's combat formations were created not so much

NB! · Cinema · Pop Culture · Humour

Cruella de Swine

NB! · Faith · Art · Rome

The Separation of Light from Darkness

The Separation of Light from Darkness. Fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, 1508-1512, Michelangelo Buonarroti

An old olive tree with a thick trunk whose bark shows the outline of a pensive face, on a grassy hill under a cloudy sky.

NB! · Observations · Nature

A 1,500-year-old olive tree in Apulia, known as the Thinking Tree

The celebrated 1,500-year-old olive tree in Apulia is known simply as the Thinking Tree. One glance at that imposing, pensive profile is enough to see why

NB! · Observations

But It Is Not Enough for Me

Faith · Art

So-called mixed-hypostasis icons of the Holy Trinity, depicting Jesus with three faces and four eyes, were banned by both the Catholic and the Orthodox Church, although they once had a broad iconographic tradition

So-called mixed-hypostasis icons of the Holy Trinity, depicting Jesus with three faces and four eyes, were banned by both the Catholic and the Orthodox Church, although they once had a broad iconographic tradition. The Holy Synod forbade the depiction of God the Father, the Son and the Holy

People · Humour

Austrian composer Artur Schnabel at the piano in an archive photograph

The trouble with the piano is that every good note lies between two bad ones. The Austrian composer Artur Schnabel In life, incidentally, it is much the same