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Matthiae-Mahl
Matthiae-Mahl. The oldest dinner in the world, which nobody has dared to cancel The tradition dates from 1356: every year at the end of February the Hamburg city senate invites guests to a meal. 3,425 glasses, 3,400 pieces of silver cutlery that have been polished for several
Moscow · Observations · Society · Humour
They Are Simply Being Moved Around*
Now the directresses of museums, now the directors of theatres. This is not culture but a fairy tale about misplaced personnel. One has the feeling that someone has spread a Monopoly board on the table and, chuckling, is shuffling the character cards from square to square. *with minor amendments The
NB! · London · Monarchies · Society · Humour
The Soviet AToS-1 special communications set, otherwise known as the "vertushka", in the private apartments of Elizabeth II
The Soviet AToS-1 special communications set, otherwise known as the "vertushka", in the private apartments of Elizabeth II. The cryptographic information-protection equipment is, in all likelihood, built into the walnut secretaire
Archive · Mores · People · Humour
At Least Come Out of the Water to Eat! Look, You've Gone Quite Blue
At least come out of the water to eat! Look, you've gone quite blue - the deafening cries of the public, to the accompaniment of which Salvador Dalí took his rest in Venice
Architecture · Observations · Heritage · Saint Petersburg · Humour
KAMAZ: Looks Like I Really Am the First at This Arch
The Golitsyn House on the Fontanka Embankment: in pain
NB! · Science · Education · Society · Humour
The head of the Znanie Society, Maxim Dreval, has declared that the citation rate of the society's lecturers has drawn level with that of Nobel Prize laureates
The East · Society · People · Humour
To Go to War Without France Is Like Going Hunting Without an Accordion
American General Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of the coalition forces during the Gulf War in 1991
NB! · Faith · Observations · Humour
It turns out that this Great Lent may be the last chance to prepare for the Last Judgement
NB! · Books · Observations · Humour
Can you imagine a world in which the crew of Jules Verne's Nautilus, when the giant squid attacks, rush onto the conning tower not with axes but with little "welcome" flags?
Art · Cinema · Observations · Humour
Modigliani in the dining room of the collectors Wendell and Dorothy Cherry in Louisville, and Modigliani in the drawing room of Lyudmila Prokofyevna Kalugina's flat in "Office Romance"
The Cherrys have the 1919 canvas "Jeanne Hébuterne Seated in Front of a Door"; Lyudmila Prokofyevna has "Girl in a Sailor Suit" of 1918. To be honest, our Modigliani looks even better, without any candelabra or gilding, simply and in a thoroughly modernist spirit
Books · Monarchies · Society · Humour
You yourselves robbed and plundered, you yourselves set up unrighteous judges, you yourselves sold and bought yourselves in the courts
Our men of ill repute... judge themselves and pardon themselves Ivan the Terrible, in his letter to Prince Kurbsky and in his epistle to Archbishop Pimen of Novgorod, 1570s