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The Rothschilds aren't all that rich, believe me: I once saw them playing two to a single piano
Architecture · Observations · Ethnography · Humour
If you wish to delight your beloved in the house with the carved front garden, do memorise the proper names of the parts of a window surround
Sit down and learn them; I shall return and test you
Archaeology · Art · Ethnography · Humour
Gold funerary mask of the Lambayeque culture from northern Peru, 8th to 10th century
You Look Better on Social Media... Golden funerary mask of the Lambayeque culture of northern Peru, 8th to 10th centuries.
Observations · Mores · Society · Humour
American economist Steven Levitt is convinced that the girls' names Angel, Heaven, Misty, Destiny and Tiffany, and the boys' names Billy, Tommy and Ricky, point to very poorly educated white parents
A good education, by contrast, and the influence of literature and art on parents are attested by such names in their children as Beckett, Sasha, Finnegan, Maira, Beatrix and Aviva. First, forgive me, Tiffany. Second, let us recall what the heroes of the highest-grossing Hollywood films of recent decades
Faith · Mores · Humour
A lady asks a priest whether calling herself beautiful in the mirror is a sin
A woman asks the preacher Abbé Mugnier:. "Father, when I look at myself in the mirror and exclaim, 'How beautiful I am!', is that a sin?" "No, madam, merely a mistake."
Cinema · Observations · Pop Culture · Humour
29 years of Absolutely Fabulous, whose first episode aired on the BBC on 12 November 1992
How does a fashion show differ from a war? In an army, not every detachment has a Yasmin Le Bon, generals are not obliged to embrace everyone after each manoeuvre, and operations are not conducted to the beat of rap and avant-garde music. Many people's notions of
NB! · In the Press · London · Society · Humour
Someone will object that the freedom to talk nonsense is not the same thing as freedom of speech, but according to the newspaper Metro, people refuse to accept that the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is not a nineteenth-century cross-dressing prosti
Books · Observations · Humour
Sumarokov condemned loanwords, while Trediakovsky derived the word amazon from omuzhonka
If Sumarokov railed against borrowings and called for the extermination of foreign words, declaring: "Foreign words are strange in conversation, stranger still in writing, and strangest of all in print. What will posterity say?", then his contemporary Vasily Trediakovsky, by contrast, found borrowings interesting and endowed them with
NB! · Archive · Art · Paris · Humour
Alphonse Mucha snaps Paul Gauguin playing the harmonium in his studio without trousers
NB! · Art · Humour
Sir, Kindly Flail Your Arms Elsewhere
Sir, kindly flail your arms elsewhere. Adrien de Lelie, 1792.
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