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Queen Victoria, aged 18, convened her first council at 11 in the morning
A reminder that one need not postpone life until noon. The eighteen-year-old Queen Victoria convened her first council at 11 o’clock in the morning
Archive · Art · Monarchies · Humour
The New European Barber's Shop, or the Shaving of Napoleon by the Allies after the Battle of Leipzig
The greatest pleasure is to contemplate Emperor Alexander's smile, with the plate of 1812, which shows, as nothing else could, his disposition for the negotiations in Vienna. The chin: Holland; the towel: Milan, Kulm, Leipzig; the razor: London 1813; the shaving bowl: 1812.
Cinema · Books · Monarchies · Humour
In the 1992 American action film with Harrison Ford, "Patriot Games", about the investigation of an Irish terrorist group plotting an attempt on members of the royal family, the chief villains turn out to be members of…
In the 1992 American action film with Harrison Ford, "Patriot Games", about the investigation of an Irish terrorist group plotting an attempt on members of the royal family, the chief villains turn out to be members of a society of rare-book collectors, a beautiful agent who deals
NB! · Art · Pop Culture · Humour
Giacomo Ceruti's (1698-1767) "Beggar" Wears Vintage Comme des Garçons, 2000
The East · Art · Museums · Humour
The Bespectacled Goat
The Bespectacled Goat. I hope you have someone to send it to. From the collection of the Salar Jung Museum in Hyderabad
NB! · Cinema · Observations · Pop Culture · Humour
It seems Bonaparte himself was not as good at being Napoleon as Marlon Brando managed to be in 1954
Art · Mores · People · Humour
Young George Frideric Handel secretly taught himself the harpsichord in an attic
This is exactly what you were thinking! Papa with a lantern and the entire family burst into the attic to catch their son at a shameful occupation. Little Georg Friedrich Handel was strictly forbidden to study music. The four-year-old child found an abandoned old harpsichord and taught himself
NB! · London · Monarchies · Mores · Humour
Camilla Parker Bowles's Favourite Biscuit
NB! · Observations · Nature · Humour
Brunhilda the cat wishes you a good morning and reminds you that all of life is a battle; the main thing is not to sleep through it
NB! · Art · Monarchies · Humour
Take a porcelain cup, fit it with a silver stem, and you have a goblet
Take a porcelain cup, fit it with a silver stem, and you have a goblet. So thought some craftsman of the Elizabethan age. Four hundred and some years on, this hybrid goblet of the Ming Dynasty and Elizabeth I has fetched a tidy sum
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