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Am I mistaken, or does Ryazan on this map of 1556 really enjoy a more attractive situation than Moscow?
NB! · Archive · Science · People · Humour
The manuscript of an article by Yury Valentinovich Knorozov, co-authored by the cat Asya
NB! · Monarchies · People
Prince Philip returns to Windsor Castle after 28 nights in hospital, the longest stay of his life
NB! · Observations · Humour
Readers are asked to identify a Russian ruler from an excerpt of an old book
Guess who is being described. Several names come to mind at once, do they not?
NB! · Art · Mores · Humour
A Crinoline Mishap
A crinoline mishap. Poor girl, one longs to offer her a hand. But the fellow, instead of helping, has raised a finger and stands there looking gleeful.
Art · Nature
Child with hunting dogs in a joint painting by Jan Fyt and Erasmus Quellinus the Younger
A very serious little boy with hunting dogs and a bird of prey. A collaborative painting by the Antwerp animal painter Jan Fyt (1609-1661) and Erasmus Quellinus the Younger (1607-1678). Such joint works were not uncommon among the Flemish, especially for Fyt. The principle was simple: to achieve
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News from the World of Books
News from the world of books. Nastya Ivleeva and the Parnassian Mockingbird 🥰
Archive · Books · Observations · Mores
Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstam has a recollection of how she and her husband chanced upon namesakes in a watchmaker's workshop in Yalta
Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstam has a recollection of how she and her husband chanced upon namesakes in a watchmaker's workshop in Yalta. While writing out a receipt, the watchmaker was stunned to hear his own surname from his customers. He invited the Mandelstams to his home and told them
NB! · Museums · Observations
When One Is Delighted by Museums That Actually Work
Architecture · Heritage · Society · Paris · Nature
One thousand trees from French forests for the spire and transept of Notre-Dame
The original roof of Notre-Dame, a masterpiece of engineering, was built in the twelfth century from 13,000 oaks, which is why it was called la forêt (the forest), while the spire was rebuilt in the nineteenth century. After Macron announced that traditional techniques and materials had been chosen
Architecture · Heritage · Paris · Nature
Eight oaks from the Bercé forest blessed for the spire of Notre-Dame de Paris
In France, 200-year-old oaks that are to be felled for the reconstruction of the spire of Notre-Dame de Paris have been blessed. For the restoration of the 96-metre spire, enormous oaks have been chosen, fifty metres tall, with trunks more than a metre in diameter, from