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The face of Harry Potter cinematic universe fans when they see this face
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Those who do not believe in chemtrails may, for example, be interested in a photograph of just such a spraying against malarial mosquitoes in the Armenian SSR in 1931
NB! · Architecture · Museums · New York · Humour
The New Museum's new building, the museum of contemporary art in New York
The new building of the New Museum, the museum of contemporary art in New York. It has opened after four years of construction. One question: why so 2016?
Archive · Art · Books · Humour
Woe Is Me, That I Have Seen This
An emblem with a weeping eye, from the English counterpart of the "Emblemata", the 1612 book "Minerva Britanna, or A Garden of Heroical Devises"
NB! · Art · Nature · Humour
A Collection of Cats from World Culture by the English Artist Susan Herbert
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Chuck Norris and Vladimir Zhirinovsky in Heaven
Photograph taken in Moscow in 1997
NB! · Observations · Saint Petersburg · Humour
Sounds Splendid: In the City of Saint Peter
Monarchies · Science · Mores · Humour
In 1783, when the Montgolfier brothers launched the first hot-air balloon, France succumbed to collective madness
In 1783, when the Montgolfier brothers launched the first hot-air balloon, France succumbed to collective madness. The question arose at once: might one put people in it? People were, at first, thought too great a risk, and a duck, a cockerel and a sheep were placed in the basket
Archaeology · Archive · Art · Observations · Humour
I rather feel I have failed a primary-school task from the magazine for the youngest pioneers "Yozh" (The Hedgehog), November 1933
Applied art history for children, then, disguised as a training exercise for the eye. And if the spires and towers of Piazza San Marco in Venice are more or less clear, the second question, what the little figures at the bottom are made of, has proved a genuine puzzle to
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Shklovsky probably invented the claim that Tsvetaeva said Pasternak looked at once like an Arab and like his horse
Shklovsky probably invented the claim that Tsvetaeva said Pasternak looked at once like an Arab and like his horse. But who are we to judge the maestro?
Architecture · Moscow · Society · Humour
Trump Unveils Renderings of the Trump-Kennedy Center, and It Looks Most of All Like the Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington itself, I remind you, was renamed, with the surname Trump appended, in late 2025 by decision of the centre's board of trustees, of which Trump is chairman