NB! · Museums · Science · Humour
The sword-swallower of the healthy man. German Hygiene Museum in Dresden, a medical model by Rudolf Pohl showing what it means to 'go too far', 1900
NB! · Archive · Books · Observations · Mores · Humour
My new hobby is Jewish cuisine of many lands. At the back of the 1907 volume 'Choice Dinners and Dishes for the Jewish Family' I found an advertisement for a book for young Orthodox housekeepers. I want it, I cannot have it 💔
Archaeology · Ethnography
A burial of an infant of the 2nd century AD has been found in the Kyz-Aul necropolis in Crimea. What makes it unusual is that, in keeping with a barbarian tradition, the skull of the deceased had been severely deformed. The burial was at once dubbed the “alien'
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Archaeology · The East · Museums · Paris
In 1984, road builders in Jordan discovered Ain Ghazal, the largest Neolithic settlement yet found, which at its height, in the 8th millennium BC, was home to 3,000 people. The population of Jericho in the same period is estimated at around 2,000. Ain Ghazal also covered 15 hectares,
NB! · Art · Museums · Paris
In the Press · Faith · Mores · People
I have written a little on how married life was advised to be conducted in the Corinthian church founded by Paul, and how this is reflected in the New Testament. Paul himself was unmarried and gave preference to virginity before marriage, but wished a different lot for his followers: http:
NB! · The East · Books · Society · Humour
A Mother Goose rhyme for Jewish children. A kitten visited Palestine in 1945 and saw camels and donkeys. In Israel in 1966 it saw an agrarian revival and industrialisation. Geopolitics for toddlers!
NB! · Art · Monarchies · Society
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Aristocracy · Architecture · Books · London · Monarchies · Mores
In a book on Whitehall, one of the loveliest palaces in Europe and, in its day, the largest in the world, I came upon a description of a whimsical toy belonging to the merry King Charles II. In the centre of the Privy Garden at Whitehall stood a unique sundial.