Statuette of a bear standing on its hind legs and aiming a gun, with gold ornaments and gemstones, and a small game board beside it.

Art · Museums · Humour

Statuette of a Bear as a Hunter from the Inverted World Series, 1580/81, Vienna

When Someone Makes Advances on Your Beehive. Bear in the guise of a hunter, 1580/81. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna A figurine from the World Turned Upside Down series.

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I am certain the Good Lord is sending some sign by lighting up the House on the Embankment like this

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Stalin Makes Entries in the Death Note under the Supervision of the Shinigami Demon

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Well, I don't know, I wouldn't be overjoyed in Roosevelt's place

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The Route of Hannibal's Army during the Italian Campaign in 218 BC

The route of Hannibal's army during the Italian campaign in 218 BC. Just imagine: the elephants, too, made the whole journey

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The more time you have to complete a task, the more time it will take

Parkinson's Law

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A Selfie Taken by Nicholas II

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Prince Andrey and Speransky on the Commission for Drafting Laws and Lawmaking Today

The Commission on Laws has existed for a hundred and fifty years, cost millions and accomplished nothing. Do you remember when Prince Andrei did not wish to join the commission for the drafting of laws, pleading that it required a legal education, which he did not possess? And Speransky, who

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Meeting Anubis on the Underground Is a Great Stroke of Luck

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In 1992 the Daily Mail published police-made photofits of how Princes William and Harry might look in their early thirties

In 1992 the Daily Mail published police-made photofits of how Princes William and Harry might look in their early thirties. William, for some reason, is the spitting image of Boris Johnson, while Harry is a bleached Ellen DeGeneres

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In the Secret Cabinet of the Naples Museum there is a depiction of a Pompeian fresco in which a satyr creeps up on a sleeping nymph, discovers that it is a hermaphrodite, and promptly tries to flee in horror, while the two-sexed object of his desire tries