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The Bird Woman in the 1964 “Mary Poppins” as the Prototype of the Pigeon Lady in “Home Alone 2”
Yet Another Unsolved Artistic Parallel. The image of the bird lady in the film "Home Alone 2" is, beyond doubt, a nod to a classic, and not only in idea and emotion but in quite exact visual correspondence with the original reference, the lonely bird woman of Pamela
Monarchies · Observations · Mores · Humour
Five lots of British royal wedding cake sold by Julien's Auctions in 2018
Selling slices of royal wedding cake is nothing new. Naturally, any guest may ask for a piece of the wedding cake to take home, and many keep this relic, some from mercenary motives, and others, presumably, wishing to bring their nearest and dearest into contact with the sacred body of
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
Archive · Art · People · Humour
Frida Kahlo in the 1933 press as Diego Rivera's wife and amateur artist
The muralist's wife amuses herself with works of art. Can you imagine that this might have been written about Frida Kahlo? An unexpected mention of Frida in the press of 1933, in the column "Visiting Interesting People", and visiting not her at all, but her husband,
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An insert in the collected works of Stalin asking that the book bearing this personal label be returned should any defect be found in it
An insert in the collected works of Stalin asking that the book bearing this personal label be returned should any defect be found in it. One does not, of course, envy the inspector after whose check a flaw or error turns up in a book by Stalin. Oh, one does
Archaeology · Museums · Observations · Science
nplus1 reports that Italian archaeologists have discovered in the Natural History Museum of the University of Florence six previously unrecorded cardboard boxes and wooden crates containing more than 150 bone fragments, including the remains of two infant
nplus1 reports that Italian archaeologists have discovered in the Natural History Museum of the University of Florence six previously unrecorded cardboard boxes and wooden crates containing more than 150 bone fragments, including the remains of two infants. It turned out that they had been excavated as long ago as the
NB! · Coming Up · Moscow · Museums · Observations
Exhibition marking the centenary of the GOELRO plan at the Museum of Moscow
It is a hundred years since our country was blessed with electricity, GOELRO-style. The exhibition is about just that. Everyone to the Museum of Moscow
NB! · Archive · In the Press · Science · Nature
One might consider it a prophecy of catastrophic climate change from 1912 come true, although humanity has pushed nature to the brink of existence and extinction not over centuries, as the futurologists of a century ago supposed, but in merely…
NB! · Observations · Nature · Saint Petersburg
The oldest oak, aged 160 years, falls in the botanical garden of Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg Live reports that the oldest oak in the botanical garden has fallen. The 160-year-old tree, with a crown 24 metres across and a height of 18 metres, which had witnessed the abolition of serfdom, could not survive climate change, or, quite as likely, a fungal disease.
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Copying archival files oneself was formally permitted as long ago as 2016, when the Supreme Court declared this restriction on archive visitors unlawful
Copying archival files oneself was formally permitted as long ago as 2016, when the Supreme Court declared this restriction on archive visitors unlawful. A copy of a page could cost five hundred roubles, and this was a weighty concession, finally adopted by Rosarkhiv last year, albeit with the proviso that
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