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Pigeon feeders in 1950s Moscow and the decision to cull the birds after the youth festival
In the 1950s, Moscow was full of pigeon feeders like this one in Sokolniki. One could come across a sign in the city reading “Caution, pigeons!”. But a couple of years after thousands of pigeons were released at the opening of the World Festival of Youth and Students, there turned
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In 1965, 16 Magazine suggested kissing your favourite Beatle
Kiss your favourite Beatle. 16 Magazine, 1965. My kissing fairy, it seems, has gone off to Ringo Starr. And yours?
NB! · Archive · Cinema · Pop Culture
Sisters Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac in a hotel room in Rochefort, before the filming of Jacques Demy's "The Young Girls of Rochefort"
Sisters Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac in a hotel room in Rochefort, before the filming of Jacques Demy's "The Young Girls of Rochefort". In Françoise's hands is a front page mentioning the film about hopeful provincial youth setting off for Paris in search of
NB! · Archive · Architecture · Heritage
The ruins of the Kreuzburg church in the present-day village of Slavskoye, Kaliningrad Region
The ruins of the Kreuzburg church in the present-day village of Slavskoye, Kaliningrad Region. The ancestors of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien came from Kreuzburg
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Father Time, Pieter Christoffel Wonder, 1810
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The New Years weep as they read their 1940 travel vouchers to the countries of Europe
The New Years weep as they read their 1940 travel vouchers to the countries of Europe. The only happy New Year is the one bound for the USSR. The author of this New Year cover of Krokodil for 1939/1940, Konstantin Rotov, was sent to the camps for 8 years
NB! · Archive · New York · Pop Culture
Harper's Bazar marked its fiftieth year with an anniversary cover in December 1916
The anniversary cover of Harper's Bazar. In December 1916 the magazine of fashion, style and society marked its fiftieth anniversary
NB! · Archive · London · People · Pop Culture
Vivienne Westwood in an ermine cape and a fur-trimmed crown hat of her own design, in a shoot for Vogue, August 1987
NB! · Archive · Observations · Mores
Enslaved woman fights off her master's advances in a casta painting
It is well known that enslaved women were constantly subjected to violence by their masters, but it is pleasant to learn that at least one woman managed to repel the advances of her lord. And didn't the scoundrel get what was coming to him 💪🏽
Archaeology · Archive · Art · Rome
Photographs of the 1885 excavation of the Terme Boxer on the Quirinal Hill in Rome
Footage from the excavation of one of the most famous boxers in the world. The so-called Boxer at Rest was found in Rome, on the Quirinal Hill, in 1885. Fortunately, a photographer happened to be present at the dig, and we can watch this bronze athlete of the 2nd-
NB! · Archive · Architecture · Faith · Art · Cinema
Jean Cocteau and Charlie Chaplin at the opening of the Chapelle Saint-Pierre in Villefranche-sur-Mer, restored by Cocteau
Jean Cocteau and Charlie Chaplin at the opening of the Chapelle Saint-Pierre in Villefranche-sur-Mer, restored by Cocteau. July 1957