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If the Housing and Utilities Service Is Not in the Pay of the Forces of Evil, How Is One to Explain This?
People · Nature · Humour
Please Do Not Feed the Sharks!
Not far from Dublin, a pensioner has put up a notice warning against the feeding of sharks beside a wheat field teeming with shark fins. Anne Melady, a 75-year-old nurse, admits that she borrowed the idea from a landowner acquaintance. What matters most to her is that those
NB! · Art · Humour
Two friendly Telegram channels share insider tips
Two friendly Telegram channels share insider tips. Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1559
Books · Paris · Humour
Perhaps Teeth Would Be Better After All?
Memories of Auteuil, 1881, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
NB! · Observations · Education · Society · Humour
It turns out that applicants to the Higher School of Economics can get +2 points for a gold Ready for Labour and Defence badge: almost the same as for a gold medal, which takes a decade of slogging to earn
Geography · Maps · Observations · Humour
The Omnes Viae website calculates travel times on Roman roads using an interactive map
If air links with Europe are this difficult, perhaps it is time to turn to the routes of Ancient Rome? A website has appeared with an interactive map on which you can plan a journey along roads laid down 2,000 years ago. Any journey in the days of the
NB! · The East · Geography · Maps · Humour
A map showing the spread of dumplings along the Great Silk Road and other trade routes of antiquity
A map showing the spread of dumplings along the Great Silk Road and other trade routes of antiquity. Today you will see nothing more important
People · Nature · Humour
Aviator Ila Fox Loetscher began rescuing sea turtles in Texas after the age of fifty
The best years behind her, the joys of a beloved occupation in the past, the children grown, and a beloved husband suddenly dead: this is how the depressed heroines of television serials on Channel Two usually look. Such was also the shape of life after fifty for Ila Fox Loetscher
NB! · Humour
The Prank Succeeded
NB! · Archive · Observations · Pop Culture · Humour
Don't tell me I'm the only one who finds reading Russian manuscripts of the early seventeenth century reminiscent of the Wonnie meme universe
Don't tell me I'm the only one who finds reading Russian manuscripts of the early seventeenth century reminiscent of the Wonnie meme universe. And don't you dare even hint that you don't read such things!
Art · London · Museums · Humour
Nicola Turner at the Royal Academy of Arts treats humans as systems of microorganisms
Someone Has Dumped a Pile in the Museum Again. Nicola Turner's Anatomy of Melancholy at the Royal Academy of Arts. The artist reflects on people not as individuals but as mobile systems made up of hordes of microorganisms and bacteria, in constant interaction and exchange with other organisms