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Liberty, Equality, The End

Black and white engraving of a woman reclining with a pipe in a glass-sided hearse drawn by a horse, with the driver on the box.

NB! · Archive · Mores · Pop Culture · Humour

An 1871 engraving shows a Quebec woman riding in a hearse along St. John Street with a pipe

A woman from Quebec caused a sensation by driving down Saint John Street in a hearse, reclining where the coffin should be and smoking a pipe». Greetings to Ksenia Sobchak from 1871

NB! · Books · Observations

Bubnovalyetovtsy or Bubnovalyetsy: how to name members of the Jack of Diamonds

If we go by usage in literary fiction, it is the Bubnovalletovtsy after all. From the standpoint of word formation, too, this is the better justified form

Cinema · Observations

Showing a film is not enough, viewers must also be told about the screening in advance

I would have come, but I never heard or saw any announcements. That, too, is important work in our day; merely showing the film is not enough

French magazine page headlined on a tsarevich's engagement. A smiling woman in a black coat and fur hat stands on snowy Red Square by the Spasskaya Tower.

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Magazine page on Georges Mikhailovich's engagement, winter Red Square

NB! · Aristocracy · Interviews · Monarchies · Paris · Society Pages

Paris Match managed to prepare, in time for the betrothal, a lengthy interview with the "tsarevich", Grand Duke George Mikhailovich, and Rebecca, christened in July 2020 as Victoria Romanovna, Bettarini

Paris Match managed to prepare, in time for the betrothal, a lengthy interview with the "tsarevich", Grand Duke George Mikhailovich, and Rebecca, christened in July 2020 as Victoria Romanovna, Bettarini. We await the print version

NB! · Archaeology · Humour

When They Suggested Waiting Just a Little Longer After 3,700 Years of Waiting

Marble relief of a seated woman with two children, with a seated man in a face mask and mittens added on the right by photomontage.

NB! · Observations · Rome · Humour

Montage with Bernie in mittens on a relief of the Altar of Peace

Let us hope it is no accident that Bernie fits so well into the Ara Pacis. To all 🧑🏼‍🎄💋

NB! · Cinema · Pop Culture

20 January is the birthday of David Lynch (1946) and Federico Fellini (1920-1993)

20 January is the birthday of David Lynch (1946) and Federico Fellini (1920-1993). In the photograph with the two celebrants is the beautiful Isabella Rossellini

Art · Books · Nature

Black hellebore in a painting by Charles Cope titled after a line by Coleridge

This picture by the Victorian artist Charles Cope takes its title from a line of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poetry, which might be rendered as "Hopes and fears that kindle hope". It is a fairly typical Victorian subject, a pining young woman, in which the details are

Museums · Observations · Humour

Estonia's top museum award Aasta Muuseumirott takes the form of a rat statuette

The principal museum award in Estonia is called Aasta Muuseumirott, that is, "Museum Rat of the Year". The winner receives a statuette of a rat with its paws planted on its hips. The size of the figurine depends on the rank of the award, and the largest rat

Aristocracy · Cinema · Books · Observations

I do not care for round-ups as a format, but this time Buro has put together an excellent list of 7 books of aristocratic character, from Julian Fellowes's "Snobs", the very same Fellowes who shamelessly cribbed details of the private life of the Earls of

I do not care for round-ups as a format, but this time Buro has put together an excellent list of 7 books of aristocratic character, from "Snobs" by Julian Fellowes, the very same Fellowes who shamelessly cribbed details of the private life of the Earls of Carnarvon

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