Cinema · Books · Pop Culture · Humour
In the very first Casper cartoon, Famous Studios' "The Friendly Ghost" of 1945, Casper reads a book called "How to Win Friends". This is Dale Carnegie's bestseller, "How to Win Friends and Influence People". It turns out that Casper is the
Books · Education · Humour
O my dear reader, you have already noticed that one may be a great scholar and yet know nothing of the commonest phenomena, and on the strength of things known to the whole world indulge in the strangest of fancies. Ptolemaeus Philadelphus applied himself to the sciences and did not
Art · Humour · The Golden Age
I read that during the celebration of Modigliani's centenary in his native city of Livorno in the summer of 1984, the Progressive Museum of Modern Art of Livorno conceived a large exhibition of his sculptures and resolved to test the legend that he had thrown several works rejected
Art · Museums · Humour
Two American museums have bet on Monet The Milwaukee Art Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida, have struck up a jocular wager on the outcome of the finals of Major League Baseball, in which the Milwaukee Brewers and the Tampa Bay Rays are playing this
NB! · Moscow · Observations · Society · Humour
The Mausoleum is carried as a fixed asset, as are the sarcophagus and the equipment, while the clothing and the reagents count as materials. And Lenin himself, who takes no part in the production cycle and is not subject to depreciation, presumably sits in an off-balance-sheet account?
NB! · Society · Paris · Humour
But there is good news too
Art · Observations · Humour
Московити також сидять на цьому аукцiонi The funniest thing is that what is being discussed is a polychrome ceramic figurine of the early twentieth century, sold for a million hryvnias. And here, it turns out, the Muscovites are to blame
Observations · Society · Paris · People · Humour
Disturbances in Paris, literally at Les Invalides, the tomb of Napoleon. I think it would have taken him less than an hour to remove the cause of the noise, were it not for the 35-tonne sarcophagus of crimson Shoksha quartzite, brought from Russia by order of Nicholas I
NB! · Society · Humour
No one has done more for the rehabilitation of Stalin than a plain French mineral water
Observations · Mores · Pop Culture · Ethnography · Humour
Endocannibalism is the scientific name for the eating of the remains of deceased members of one's own social group or family. The Yanomami of the Amazon add the ashes of a dead relative's bones to banana soup and consume it so that the spirit of the
In the Press · Cinema · Observations · Humour
I have been reading how a young British authoress recognised herself in the heroine of the film "Amélie". She was, so we are told, diagnosed with "autism" in her early twenties, although her parents had suspected it since childhood, because she had no friends and could
NB! · The East · Society · Pop Culture · Humour
The Voronezh meme finds a new incarnation, this time in a country of the First World