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The Phystech lot are joking, and I honestly cannot say which of these returns I am awaiting more
Monarchies · Society · People · Humour
Prince Carl Philip of Sweden and the 1979 law on absolute primogeniture
While Europe is in quarantine, His Royal Highness Prince Carl Philip of Sweden, aged forty, is on manoeuvres. Sweden has not introduced a quarantine, although against the background of the other Scandinavian countries the situation does not look entirely cloudless. Let me clarify at once: Carl Philip is married to
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Not Bad for a Typo
Art · London · Mores · Humour
The Witch-king of Angmar, Lord of the Nazgûl: no mortal man can kill me!
The Witch-king of Angmar, Lord of the Nazgûl: no mortal man can kill me! (falls upon the dog, jabs the umbrella into its belly) Dandy in a neck corset: oh heck A sketch of the clash of two styles, or fashion as an obstacle to social distancing London, April
Faith · Books · Ethnography · Humour
Accusation of selling a bewitched pig in an 1888 book on Welsh folklore
A book of Welsh folklore from 1888 tells of a Welsh woman accused of selling a "bewitched pig" at market. Having noticed that something was amiss from certain outward signs and from the piglet's behaviour, the buyer insisted that the seller lift the curse by passing
Art · Books · Observations · Humour
In 1841 Tropinin painted the heroine of Lermontov’s poem “The Tambov Treasurer’s Wife”
Who better than Vasily Andreyevich Tropinin, founder of the Moscow school of painting, to understand the misery of those self-isolating in a flat without a balcony. The woman at the window in this 1841 picture is the Tambov treasurer's wife of Lermontov's poem of the
Faith · Art · Humour
Saint Anthony in a detail of a 1501 painting by Hieronymus Bosch
Psst, coming out? Saint Anthony seems to be coming out. Hieronymus Bosch, 1501
Observations · Pop Culture · Saint Petersburg · Humour
Company meeting of the BDT in a new format with Alisa Freindlich and Nina Usatova
It is pleasing to see that colossi such as the BDT keep pace with the times and readily integrate new formats into their daily work. Take, for example, a company meeting with Alisa Freindlich and Nina Usatova. Everyone is ever so sweet, keeps up a fighting spirit and is not
Archaeology · Humour
Roman cavalryman's bronze parade mask of the 1st-2nd century found in a Dutch riverbed
A bronze parade mask of a Roman cavalryman: a detachable (so as not to stew) part of the helmet, adding a special lustre to any procession or even a charge. Imagine how a rider with a golden face looks in motion, and under the rays of the sun at that?
Art · Mores · Nature · Humour
French poet Charles Borde and a 1790 illustration for his poem about the male member
During the quarantine nature was so purified that rare and endemic birds returned to the city gardens, and narwhals and mermaids to the canals of Venice. An illustration of 1790 to a charming poem by the French poet Charles Borde on the male member
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