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Interiors of Amalienborg, the Palace of the Danish Royal Family in Copenhagen
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Good morning, and may your day be as joyful as this eighteenth-century sea lion
Faith · Art
Bathers on Luca Signorelli's 1490 panel from an altar in a Siena church
Naked bathers, incidentally, of the fifteenth century. The year is 1490, and the work is by the early Renaissance painter Luca Signorelli. This panel was originally part of an altarpiece in one of the churches of Siena, and served as a backdrop for a sculpture of Saint Christopher wading across
NB! · Faith · Art · Humour
The Sculptures of Santa Maria della Vita, When Someone Coughed in the Next Carriage of the Metro
NB! · Monarchies · Pop Culture · Humour
I am hinting at nothing, but in the coronation photograph of George VI with his wife and daughters, which announced his monarchical course of unity and devotion to family values, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret wore crowns from Burger King
NB! · Geography · Maps · Observations · Society · Humour
Germany and Russia
Germany and Russia. And Poland between them, naturally; how could it be otherwise. One date I have prudently blurred out, simply because I am not sure whether, where we are, mentioning it nowadays merely lands one in prison or has already progressed to the firing squad.
Art · Museums · Observations · Humour
A Tea Service for Parents
A tea service for parents. A teapot inscribed "Tulip: pride and ingratitude" and a matching cup inscribed "Jasmine: chastity", in the display case of Russian porcelain at the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts. Might I trouble you to top up my chastity with a little boiling
Aristocracy · Art · Observations · Paris · People · Pop Culture
Castelbajac graffiti on rue des Beaux-Arts in Paris still intact six months on
Does anyone still remember the Marquis Jean Michel de Castelbajac? A designer from the distant past, who dressed Madonna in a coat of teddy bears and was famed for his rainbow palette and witty solutions, once even earning the title of France's king of kitsch, and who befriended
Archive · Architecture · Moscow · Observations
Visualisations of Moscow with the 415-metre Palace of Soviets, had it been built
"In Moscow, near the Kremlin, the Palace of Soviets is being built. It will be the tallest structure on earth, higher than the Egyptian pyramids, the Eiffel Tower and the American skyscrapers. The Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the parliament of the only truly democratic country in the world,
Cinema · Science · Society · People
A short article on the Russian prodigy and young genius Pasha Konoplev: how at four he solved complex school problems, at six scored 142 on an IQ test, at seven mastered logarithms and musical notation, at eight appeared in Solaris, and…
A short article on the Russian prodigy and young genius Pasha Konoplev: how at four he solved complex school problems, at six scored 142 on an IQ test, at seven mastered logarithms and musical notation, at eight appeared in Solaris, and at ten published "A Study of the Variables
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