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Cyrus the Great Walked into Babylon as Though It Were His Own Home
Cyrus the Great walked into Babylon as though it were his own home. Quite literally: without a fight, by way of the river, past the guards. He conquered Babylon in 539 BC, exploiting the discontent of the population and diverting the course of the Euphrates so that his troops could
NB! · Art · Museums · Humour
Don't Try to Escape from the Giacometti Museum
Observations · Mores · Society · Humour
The typical club of our day is where everyone has a “unique style” but the same trainers and the same playlist, and even the bouncer knows you came not for fun but for a top-up of self-esteem
The typical club of the era of the developed welfare state, that is, the USSR, was a sociocultural Wi-Fi that connected people without a password or restrictions. Such a club was not merely a place of leisure but the centre of life for a settlement or district: concerts, lectures,
Faith · Art · Humour
Luca Mombello: a name all but forgotten outside Italy, yet in the sixteenth century this painter held a place of his own
Luca Mombello is a name all but forgotten outside Italy, yet in the sixteenth century this painter held a place of his own. His painting “The Immaculate Virgin and God the Father”, made somewhere between 1560 and 1580, conveys that delicate borderline where spirituality is interwoven with sensibility. At the
Art · Books · Humour
Dante descended into Hell once, but illustrators go down there every time they are asked to add a few more details
The design of this recent Italian edition of the Divine Comedy makes the book a collector's find at first glance
Archive · Books · New York · Humour
An unknown Kerouac manuscript found among the effects of a mafia boss
An unknown Kerouac manuscript has been found among the effects of a mafia boss. Evidently he, too, believed that real jazz is when they shoot off the beat. Jack Kerouac, author of the cult novel On the Road and symbol of the Beat Generation. A film adaptation of the same
Architecture · Observations · Heritage · Paris · Humour
Wherever cultural monuments are restored, the monuments themselves somehow rarely come out as the winners
Take, for instance, the statues by the Molière fountain in Paris, restored three years ago for half a million euros. They are now in rather a strange state, patched up with masking tape in several places. It seems to be a universal building material: it sticks equally well to stone
Cinema · Observations · Pop Culture · Humour
It looks as though the new Dumbledore's Aguamenti charm has got out of hand
Let us hope that at least Protego Maxima SPF 100 held up. With tears in our eyes, we await the release of the Harry Potter series
NB! · Humour
The pig-shaped sausage dish is glad to see no one; it has long since understood everything about everybody
NB! · Observations · Humour
Translated from the American
Translated from the American. Sheer genius
NB! · Observations · Humour