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The marble lions that lay for 409 years at the foot of the tomb of the French king Charles V and vanished from Saint-Denis in the years of the Revolution, were found 200 years later and sold at auction for £9 million
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Victor Hugo's drawing of the Bastille, known to him only from paintings
Today is Bastille Day, when my neighbour from the 3rd entrance, Uncle Lyonya, used to get drunk and bellow "A young Cossack strolls along the Don". This is Victor Hugo's drawing of the Bastille, which he knew only from paintings, but it looks rather like it
NB! · Archaeology · Observations · Mores · Humour
Original and reconstructed tools of a medieval manicure set
Looking at this manicure set (originals on the right, reconstructed tools on the left), I would not wish life in the Middle Ages on anyone!!! anyone!!! Well, except Louis-Philippe and Yana Rudkovskaya
NB! · Archive · Monarchies · Humour
Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna with their eldest daughter Olga Nikolaevna, and her grandmother Queen Victoria with the heir, Prince Albert
Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna with their eldest daughter Olga Nikolaevna, and her grandmother Queen Victoria with the heir, Prince Albert. Well, and who here is the most stylish?
NB! · Faith · Observations · Ethnography · Humour
Omen linking a sunny St Raoul's Day to the start of the harvest
I read somewhere that if St Raoul's Day is sunny, the harvest will soon be ready for gathering. St Raoul's Day (the feast of the English martyr Ralph Milner) was yesterday, and it seems we are still a very long way from any harvest
NB! · Art · Nature · Rome · Humour
An Incredibly Detailed Female Leopard in Giallo Tigrato Marble (the Stone That Adorns Santa Maria Maggiore)
An incredibly detailed female leopard in giallo tigrato marble (the stone that adorns Santa Maria Maggiore). The cat has glass eyes 😍 And her two cubs live in the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana
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I wonder what plant it is that Cranach's Adam in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna has on his nether parts?
I wonder what plant it is that Cranach's Adam in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna has on his nether parts? It looks like an epiphyte, something like an orchid. It would be amusing: in that case it is Eve who has plucked the flower, and not the other
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The golden ratio in the seventeenth-century Family Portrait by the Dutch painter Hercules Sanders
Look what I have discovered in a seventeenth-century Family Portrait by the Dutchman Hercules Sanders. The golden section! The unattractiveness of the features diminishes from the infant onwards, reaching its minimum in the figure of the head of the family
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How Do You Know the Renaissance Has Arrived?
How do you know the Renaissance has arrived? The Triumph of Emperor Maximilian bears a strong resemblance to a car-audio festival, only with the sound systems harnessed to camels and deer
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How did Benedict Cumberbatch end up related to Sirius Black and Draco Malfoy?
How did Benedict Cumberbatch end up related to Sirius Black and Draco Malfoy? Judging by the fact that many names on the Black family tree do not match the source, this is a joke by the set designer
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"We have been informed of the development of synthetic meat from mushrooms and aubergines
"We have been informed of the development of synthetic meat from mushrooms and aubergines. What sort of animal is that? It is a synthetic cow! On the udder, the legend: powdered milk." My regards to all organic cows!