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Evidently, It Is the New Year That Approaches
Fasten your seat belts, as they say
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The arse, too, is a certain representative of human nature, but it would be absurd for a painter to depict it as a typical attribute of man
Prince Pyotr Andreyevich Vyazemsky in a letter to Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
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Warwick Davis and His Roles in Harry Potter
Warwick Davis and his roles in Harry Potter. I cannot explain it by anything other than the producers' keen desire to save a great deal of money on hiring actors of short stature. This curiosity is to some extent played upon in the comedy series about Davis's
NB! · The East · Pop Culture · Humour
A pauper in Istanbul: your friend after Malkoçoğlu Balı Bey, the man from her DMs, suddenly turned out to be a mere shawarma seller
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Lapus and Zaya
Lapus and Zaya. So your cloying pet names for one another are officially classic, and have been since 1924. LAPUS AND ZAYA!
Art · Books · Observations · Humour
When There Are No Free Taxis Nearby and You Still Have to Get to Work
After galloping with me for half a day, she left me beside a forest The eighteenth-century traveller has saddled up the heavily feathered future: he dreamed of wings, but got an ostrich. The engraving from the book Voyages imaginaires, songes, visions et romans cabalistiques turns out to depict an
Art · Humour
Aren't you a darling ☺️
A very small dog. Jamie Wyeth, 1980
Art · Society · People · Humour
A Friday evening to all, as good as the one enjoyed by Burroughs and Mr. Peanut
In 1974, one of the most surreal events in the history of modern art took place in Vancouver, when Mr. Peanut, an anthropomorphic groundnut in a top hat and monocle, stood for mayor of the city. Behind this persona stood the artist Vincent Trasov, a member of the art group
Art · Heritage · Humour
The Concierge Who Found the Missing Picasso
A painting by Pablo Picasso, reported missing in Granada on 6 October, has turned up in the possession of a hapless concierge. Among the works of art that arrived for an exhibition, Pablo Picasso's "Still Life with Guitar" of 1919 could not be found. For 18
Faith · Observations · Heritage · Humour
An Eighteenth-Century Bell Stolen in France
An eighteenth-century bell has been stolen in France. Not from a church, not from a museum, but from a storage depot belonging to the municipal services. That is, a depot of sorts, and not quite a depot either. The kind of place where they take whatever is no longer
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Bosch on the Benefits of House Slippers
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A memo from an early twentieth-century advertisement for electrotherapy: despair and dejection will do you no good, but electricity will. And, you know, they did not lie
A memo from an early twentieth-century advertisement for electrotherapy: despair and dejection will do you no good, but electricity will. And, you know, they did not lie