NB! · Cinema · Humour
The Brides of Dracula
The Brides of Dracula. 1931, and all of them made up
NB! · Cinema · Humour
The Brides of Dracula. 1931, and all of them made up
London · Museums · Observations · Heritage · Humour
The Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum earns £66,000–79,000 a year, which in roubles comes to 4.5–5.5 million, or 350,000–450,000 a month. When you think about it, that is not so very much for a passive-aggressive
Mores · Society · Humour
Churchill is credited with this aphorism:. In England everything is permitted except what is forbidden. In Germany everything is forbidden except what is permitted. In France everything is permitted, even what is forbidden. In the USSR everything is forbidden, even what is permitted.
NB! · Cinema · Pop Culture · Humour
NB! · Books · Observations · Humour
The East · Art · Museums · Humour
Jemal Kukhalashvili, Tbilisi Museum of Fine Arts
NB! · Art · Observations · Humour
NB! · Observations · Humour
NB! · Observations · Humour
Aristocracy · Madrid · Monarchies · Observations · Saint Petersburg · Humour
I do not know whether the video has reached the internet yet, in which, yesterday, at the newly opened Juan Cantina Española in Petersburg, having read the Spanish Vanity Fair and eaten my fill of fried artichokes, I shouted that within two hundred metres there was no more beautiful woman
Faith · Art · Humour
Detail of a figure of Saint Sebastian by the Italian Renaissance painter Mariotto Albertinelli, 1509-10.
Faith · Observations · Mores · Humour
On World Family Day Pope Francis Spoke of Young People in No Hurry to Marry:. “We see so many young people who lack the courage to marry... Mothers often come to me and say: do something, talk to my son, he isn't getting married, and he is 37!