Humour - The Parnassian (Page 3)

Archaeology · Observations · Science · Humour

Read in a newspaper 19 years old how a British history teacher, Adrian Targett, learned that he shares mitochondrial DNA with Cheddar Man, found in Gough's Cave in 1903 and some 10,000 years old

Read in a newspaper 19 years old how a British history teacher, Adrian Targett, learned that he shares mitochondrial DNA with Cheddar Man, found in Gough's Cave in 1903 and some 10,000 years old. What is more, Targett and his family had lived all their lives literally

NB! · Art · Moscow · Observations · Humour

Something Strange at the Institute of Art History

Something strange at the Institute of Art History. No one will own up to whose brushes these are

Art · Paris · Humour

The Best View in Paris Is, of Course, of the Kremlin

Erik Bulatov, “Paris. Kremlin”, 1992

NB! · Faith · Humour

The main thing with this hairstyle is that the Philistine woman does not creep up on you

NB! · Books · Observations · Humour

In Case You Didn't Know, Larisa Ogudalova Invented Cringe

In case you didn't know, Larisa Ogudalova invented cringe. Or rather, Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky did.

NB! · Books · Observations · Pop Culture · Humour

Found an Alla Pugacheva Easter egg in a 1990s edition of "Crocodile Gena and His Friends"

NB! · The East · Books · Mores · Humour

Gaspard Drouville observes that Persian women, though they wear the chador, and even when covered from head to foot, possess a peculiar art of recognising one another from a great distance, whereas their husbands often walk right beside them and cannot te

NB! · Books · Moscow · Humour

Quotations from Great Men

Quotations from Great Men. The Lenin Library

Art · Observations · New York · Humour

Saw a great big station, Stretched and said: "What station is this — Dibuny or Yamskaya?" And from the platform they said: "This is the city of New York"

Saw a great big station, Stretched and said: "What station is this? Dibuny or Yamskaya?" And from the platform they said: "This is the city of New York. This is the city of New York, they say." Literal translation And, accordingly, a mosaic in the New

NB! · Art · Observations · Nature · Humour

Pyotr Konchalovsky's painting is called "Begonias", but actually there is a gloxinia standing beside the begonias, and behind them, it seems, some alocasias

Observations · Science · Ethnography · Humour

A Polish-Czech team of scholars investigates the complexities of cannibalism

They are, of course, careful to stipulate that they are merely modelling, not conducting fieldwork. The aim is to explain why cannibalism never took hold as a regular strategy, and why a taboo arose in different cultures. Why, indeed? What a worthy puzzlement for the inhabitants of the Christian states

London · Monarchies · Observations · Humour

Expectation versus reality: a collage

Cam and Di in the very same earrings. Though, judging by the fact that Camilla's ears are not pierced, there are two possibilities: either they were glued on for her, or remade as clip-ons. The original pair was presented to Alexandra of Denmark by the City of