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How to Cook a Pig?
How to cook a pig? Mid-1st century AD, National Archaeological Museum of Naples, where photography is forbidden 😁
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The Dior family and fertiliser production in France from the 19th century to 2007
The family business of Christian Dior was a remarkable one, and is written of with great respect in works on the economic history of France. The production of quality fertilisers gave serious support to the agricultural boom of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It was precisely in these
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Dior Fertiliser: Pure Gold!
Dior Fertiliser: pure gold! An advertisement for the struggling chemical fertiliser business owned by Christian Dior's father. Who would have guessed that phosphates would one day yield so outstanding a designer?
Archaeology · Geography · Maps · Observations
Wrecksite.eu, the largest shipwreck database with maps and a library
I have found a wildly cool website that will be useful to anyone working on maritime history and naval battles: it is the largest shipwreck database in the world. Here you will find maps, a calendar of accidents at sea, the finds of underwater archaeologists, data on shipowners and shipbuilders,
NB! · Art · Museums · Nature · Humour
George Stubbs Captured the Cheetah's Escape
The cheetah's escape was captured by George Stubbs. True, the landscape does not look much like Berkshire, but the predator really did go about in a red cap and girdle. In 1970 the painting was bought at Sotheby's by the Manchester gallery
The East · London · Mores · Nature
George Pigot's cheetahs from India at the Duke of Cumberland's hunting show in Windsor
In 1764 cheetahs were brought to England from India; they miraculously survived the long voyage and became part of the collection of foreign curiosities of George Pigot, the former Governor of Madras, who had returned to the island. On the way to London the predators stopped as guests of the
NB! · Art · Observations
Little Red Riding Hood in an 1890 painting by George Frederic Watts
Victorian Little Red Riding Hood, George Frederic Watts, 1890. Such a darling: how could anyone have sent her into the forest alone?
NB! · Observations · Heritage · Paris
Mirror with a 1944 bullet hole in the Luxembourg Palace and the ruined Peterhof
In the Luxembourg Palace they lovingly preserve this mirror, struck by a bullet during the liberation of Paris on 25 August 1944. I should very much like to show them photographs of Peterhof razed to the ground, for example
NB! · Aristocracy · Monarchies · Observations · Humour
Someone here has said I do not look much like Sandro, but Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich, standing between Maria Georgievna with Olga Alexandrovna and Xenia Alexandrovna with Mikhail Alexandrovich, does look quite like him?
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Do you know why the little spaniel wears pearl earrings?
Do you know why the little spaniel wears pearl earrings? Because he belongs to little Mademoiselle de Blois, the legitimised daughter of Louis XIV by the Marquise de Montespan. But in his eyes there is still a "dog's life"
NB! · Science · Education · Society · People
Professor Roald Matveev, the country's first doctor of political science, has died at 89
Professor Roald Fyodorovich Matveyev, the country's first Doctor of Political Science and an eminent scholar, has died at the age of 89. He was a remarkable teacher and a remarkable man. May his memory be blessed
NB! · Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Humour
They say that when Chagall was in Moscow, he was so struck by the beauty of Levitan's canvases that he asked the Tretyakov Gallery to give him one landscape in exchange for all his own paintings
They say that when Chagall was in Moscow, he was so struck by the beauty of Levitan's canvases that he asked the Tretyakov Gallery to give him one landscape in exchange for all his own paintings. Fools, they should have agreed!