Faith · Art · Observations · Humour
On first seeing Giovanni della Robbia's Adam and Eve, I was much amused to find that the serpent-tempter has, quite literally, Eve's face. This polychrome relief in glazed terracotta, illustrating the biblical parable of Adam and Eve, was made in Florence in 1515. Its details
The East · Books · Observations · Humour
Erika Fatland writes that in Uzbekistan the very first English-speaking person she met told her that Alexander the Great was an Uzbek. I am immediately reminded of the tale that the Ark came to rest somewhere in the environs of the Kazakh city of Taraz, and, of course, of
NB! · Faith · People · Rome · Humour
Asked by an Italian television presenter which programmes he enjoyed in his youth, Pope Francis, aged 86, replied: “I'll let you in on a secret. When I was young, we had no television.”
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A caricature of the Moscow collector Alexey Bakhrushin
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Science · People · Humour
After 47-year-old Niels Bohr received the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms", the Carlsberg brewery offered him an unlimited supply of beer. And so that Bohr might avail himself of the offer more conveniently, Carlsberg presented him
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Books · Humour
Andrei Voznesensky
Monarchies · Observations · New York · Society · Humour
Delighted by the witty reply of a photographer accused of a life-threatening pursuit of Markle and Prince Harry, who have been likened to Princess Diana, cruelly hounded by the royal family. It very soon emerged, however, that what the attention-deficit couple had presented as a high-speed chase
Observations · Humour
Why do people have the means to hire ΓΔΛ ΓΔΔΟΤ for their project, yet lack the wit to call in someone acquainted with the Greek alphabet?