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Stealing an obelisk is one thing; getting the blessed thing to stand up is quite another

For anyone who has ever wondered how it was done: like this. One of the 72 reliefs of the frieze of Federico da Montefeltro in Urbino. 15th century

Cinema · Humour

Are You a Historian?

Mood for the evening: Mikhail Bulgakov, Darya Moroz, Igor Mirkurbanov, Ivan Rudin, an orchestra of 70 and Plus Dacha

Archive · Faith · Nature · Humour

Three Rises in the Level of Lake Pleshcheyevo in 1557 and a Religious Procession

On 16 May 1557 the level of Lake Pleshcheyevo rose three times, causing great alarm, and it was decided to hold a religious procession. And, you know, it helped

NB! · Architecture · Cinema · Pop Culture

In "Attack of the Clones", the scenes with Padmé Amidala, Queen of the planet Naboo, and Anakin Skywalker in the city of Theed were filmed in the semicircular gallery of the early twentieth-century Neo-Moorish ensemble of the Plaza de España in Seville

NB! · Monarchies · Mores · Humour

How to ask about your stop if you are riding the bus with Louis XVI or Charles I?

NB! · Books · Monarchies · Humour

Prince Harry in Life vs Prince Harry in Dostoevsky's "Demons"

NB! · Mores · Humour

Crinolines Are a Tricky Business

Archive · Monarchies · Mores · People

Elena, Queen of Poland and daughter of the Russian Tsar Ivan III, wrote to her father in 1503 asking him to send her black sable pelts, and by all means with the fore and hind paws and claws attached

Elena, Queen of Poland and daughter of the Russian Tsar Ivan III, wrote to her father in 1503 asking him to send her black sable pelts, and by all means with the fore and hind paws and claws attached. But by the custom of those years the hunters cut off

NB! · Observations

Apparently, It's Bach

NB! · In the Press · Books · Society · People

Julian Barnes on Why He Has No Intention of Withdrawing His Books from Russia

NB! · Humour

If the Housing and Utilities Service Is Not in the Pay of the Forces of Evil, How Is One to Explain This?

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