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Anyone who misses travel and museums, or simply wants to look at Rembrandt, Vermeer and Holbein in extremely high resolution, finer than even one's own eyes can manage, should by all means join a tour of the collection…

Anyone who misses travel and museums, or simply wants to look at Rembrandt, Vermeer and Holbein in extremely high resolution, finer than even one's own eyes can manage, should by all means join a tour of the collection of the Dutch Mauritshuis, which has prepared the world'

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Marchioness Arconati-Visconti refurbished Gaasbeek Castle and gave it to the Netherlands

Nothing special, just the elderly Marchesa Maria Arconati-Visconti playing a bored Renaissance page at home, in the Dutch castle of Gaasbeek. A great eccentric even in her youth, in her declining years the Marchesa Arconati-Visconti devoted herself to decorating and refurbishing a castle in the Southern Netherlands, which

London · Monarchies · Humour

Elizabeth II sets an example of proper social distancing

The English royal family has reunited at Windsor Castle. In the photograph: the Queen's youngest son and his wife, the Earl and Countess of Wessex, William and Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Elizabeth, Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, and Princess Anne

A white automatic dispenser with a cross and the words “Holy water” in four languages, bearing an image of Christ, in a church beside wooden pews.

NB! · Architecture · Faith · Humour

Automatic holy water dispenser in the Church of Saint Catherine in Brussels

Church of Saint Catherine, Brussels. Witty, modern and, above all, effective. Amen

Aristocracy · Monarchies · Observations · Humour

Seven-month-old Prince Charles of Luxembourg prepares for his first Christmas

Seven-month-old Prince Charles of Luxembourg, the first child of Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume and his wife Countess Stéphanie de Lannoy, is preparing to celebrate his first Christmas. I look at this photograph and remember travelling to Luxembourg by bus with Auntie Nina to buy meat for borscht, because

Architecture · Books · Moscow · Science · Society

Literary critic and editor of the magazine "Znanie-Sila" Olga Balla writes that this Saturday the editorial office is being evicted from the seventeenth-century chambers on Kozhevnicheskaya Street, where it had been based for several decades

Literary critic and editor of the magazine "Znanie-Sila" Olga Balla writes that this Saturday the editorial office is being evicted from the seventeenth-century chambers on Kozhevnicheskaya Street, where it had been based for several decades. The magazine itself has existed since 1926 and is one of

NB! · Books · Observations · Humour

The most expensive, of course, is the collection of my rare works and letters at 433,000 roubles on Ozon

The most expensive, of course, is the collection of my rare works and letters at 433,000 roubles on Ozon. So far I cannot afford them myself 😂

Architecture · Cinema · Paris · People

France5tv recently screened the cult documentary "1974, une partie de campagne" (a nod to the story by Guy de Maupassant) by Raymond Depardon, about the presidential campaign of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, who died on 2 December at the age of 94

France5tv recently screened the cult documentary "1974, une partie de campagne" (a nod to the story by Guy de Maupassant) by Raymond Depardon, about the presidential campaign of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, who died on 2 December at the age of 94. The film is of interest

NB! · Geography · Maps · Observations

A Curious Map Showing How the Number 6 Sounds in Different Indo-European Languages

NB! · In the Press · Observations

Like any parent, I cannot help rejoicing in my little one's successes ❤️ And posts like this simply warm the heart

NB! · Pop Culture · Humour

Someone sent me a collectable stamp with two John Fitzgerald Kennedys: one at the desk, the other under it 💓

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Perhaps you would be interested to see Khrushchev with hair

Perhaps you would be interested to see Khrushchev with hair. 1936, for example

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