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The Wallpaper in Dzerzhinsky's Memorial Study, as if Streaked with Blood
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On discovering that a sandwich at the theatre buffet costs 8,000
NB! · Cinema · London · Monarchies · Humour
The Queen's appearance on screen alongside Paddington Bear is as unexpected as her turn with James Bond in 2012
Archaeology · Faith · The East · Museums · Humour
Three hundred crocodile mummies found near the Kom Ombo temple in Aswan province
Beauty and spa treatments may turn you into a goddess, but there is no guarantee that it will not be the deity Sobek, who appears in the guise of a crocodile. The proof: specimens from among the three hundred crocodile mummies discovered in the vicinity of the temple of Kom
London · Monarchies · Society · Humour
Packed Off to Kamchatka for Bad Behaviour
At the service in St Paul's Cathedral marking Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee, Prince Harry and his wife were seated far from their closest relatives, Prince Charles and Prince William. After Harry's hostile sallies against the family, his father personally, and life at Buckingham Palace,
NB! · Humour
When You Missed the Sanctions Lists
Faith · Art · Museums · Saint Petersburg · Humour
Block statues of Egypt's Middle Kingdom and two explanations for their popularity
The simplest block-shaped Egyptian sculptures of the Middle Kingdom are found in burials and capture the image of the deceased. They are usually furnished with an inscription containing particulars of the departed. The sculptures themselves are easy to remember if you have acquaintances whose photos show a handsome head
NB! · Monarchies · People · Nature · Humour
Peter I owned a horse called Lisette and a smooth-haired terrier called Lisette, and his imagination, it seems, did not stretch to names
NB! · Observations · Nature · Humour
Marsupial joeys make their way to a meal along a path licked clear by their mother: in the wild, it's all just like show business
NB! · Art · Observations · Humour
The American electric toaster of 1929 seems to ask at what point industrial design took a wrong turning
NB! · Art · Humour
Hedgehog with a cello in a painting by the Italian artist Giovanni Boldini
Hedgehog playing the cello. By the Italian painter Giovanni Boldini