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Did Someone Say Gerontocracy?
Did someone say gerontocracy? In this photograph from the inauguration of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, in January 1961 we see Nancy Pelosi, familiar to us as Speaker of the US House of Representatives, who is still to this day engaged in key roles in
Books · Observations · Science · Humour
On citing Foucault as absolute truth and on the humanities as interpretation
First of all, my regards to all those who so love to cite Foucault, apropos of anything and nothing, as the last word in truth. It is curious that it is mostly people acquainted with just one of his books, "Discipline and Punish", who do so. Secondly, it
People · Rome · Humour
The murder of Caesar on the Ides of March 44 BC and the soothsayer's warning in Plutarch
Beware the Ides of March! Caesar was murdered on the Ides of March, that is, on 15 March 44 BC.
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When You Have Lived a Whole Day Without Stories
When you have lived a whole day without Stories. Marguerite Gérard, 1804
Aristocracy · Paris · People · Humour
Lady Diana Cooper, silent film actress and one of the celebrated society ladies of her day, hostess of legendary balls in Paris, wife of the British ambassador to France Duff Cooper, when he was granted the title of Viscount Norwich, expressed the utmost…
Lady Diana Cooper, silent film actress and one of the celebrated society ladies of her day, hostess of legendary balls in Paris, wife of the British ambassador to France Duff Cooper, when he was granted the title of Viscount Norwich, expressed the utmost displeasure, for "Norwich" sounds like
Art · Humour
Pieter de Hooch, the painting “A Dutch Courtyard”, painted in 1658–1660
Mm, a light unfiltered! Pieter de Hooch, 1658-1660. A Dutch Courtyard
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A Centaur Complains to Saint Anthony
A centaur complains to Saint Anthony. About the monkey, presumably. From a fifteenth-century manuscript on fantastic beasts
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If you have ever wondered whether a union between a man and a centaur is possible
NB! · London · Mores · Humour
Macarons or macaroni, after all?
Macarons or macaroni, after all? In the middle of the eighteenth century, the word "macaroni" in England denoted neither a pasta nor even a dessert, but dandies who laboured diligently to dress up as French aristocrats. A macaroni could be recognised by the tiny hat perched atop a
Society · Humour
It is a disgrace that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxis or cutting hair
George Burns