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The words fascism and fajita trace back to the Latin fascis, meaning bundle
Fascism and fajitas are relatives, derived from the very same word. I am in shock. Are you?
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Save This in Case of Renovations
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Excuse me, does anyone else think San Marzano tomatoes look like Artemis of Ephesus?
NB! · Observations · Humour
I still maintain that we should have gone with the name Tsarbucks
NB! · Art · Nature · Humour
A swarm of two-inch squat lobsters from New Zealand looks, in this photograph, like a painting by David Hockney
Art · Museums · Humour
- Why, in this painting by Pierre-Auguste Vafflard in the museum at Évreux, is it the girl who carries her beloved in her arms, and not the other way round?
- Because a real woman ought to be 70% concern for her knight and 30% beauty? - The bridegroom has died, and she is kissing his weightless ghost, but your version, too, has a right to exist
Architecture · Art · Observations · Humour
Stealing an obelisk is one thing; getting the blessed thing to stand up is quite another
For anyone who has ever wondered how it was done: like this. One of the 72 reliefs of the frieze of Federico da Montefeltro in Urbino. 15th century
Cinema · Humour
Are You a Historian?
Mood for the evening: Mikhail Bulgakov, Darya Moroz, Igor Mirkurbanov, Ivan Rudin, an orchestra of 70 and Plus Dacha
Archive · Faith · Nature · Humour
Three Rises in the Level of Lake Pleshcheyevo in 1557 and a Religious Procession
On 16 May 1557 the level of Lake Pleshcheyevo rose three times, causing great alarm, and it was decided to hold a religious procession. And, you know, it helped
NB! · Monarchies · Mores · Humour
How to ask about your stop if you are riding the bus with Louis XVI or Charles I?
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