Art · Humour
The Master of Frankfurt portrayed himself with his wife in a self-portrait of 1496
The Landlady Did Not Lie After All: There Are No Cockroaches. Self-Portrait of the Master of Frankfurt with His Wife, 1496
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NB! · Archive · Mores · Paris · Humour
Paris, the Champs-Élysées, 1955
Paris, the Champs-Élysées, 1955. The girls are delighted to be fined two thousand francs for jaywalking
Books · Observations · Humour
- May a Rational Man Be Melancholic?
- Dejection, being alien to man's nature, sits ill with wisdom and plunges whoever is possessed of it into madness. Is that clear? No moping around here!
Nature · Humour
The Cardinal Who Was Not Invited to the Conclave
Cardinalis cardinalis lives in the eastern states of the USA, south-eastern Canada, Mexico and northern Guatemala, as well as in Bermuda, Hawaii and California
In the Press · London · Nature · Humour
Obelisk, a royal guard horse, killed pigeons and was sent for psychological retraining
In 2016 The Field reported that Obelisk, a horse of the Household Cavalry, lured pigeons by spitting oats from his mouth. And when the pigeons came close, he trampled them to death. And he did this regularly. In the end the horse was sent away for "psychological retraining"
Archaeology · Ethnography · Humour
Barrier Canyon pictographs in Utah that gave their name to a style of rock art
Pictographs in Barrier Canyon, otherwise known as Horseshoe Canyon, in the desert of central Utah. The little figures, in some respects resembling people, in others insects, in others your common-or-garden extraterrestrials, have given their name to an entire style of rock art: similar petroglyphs are said to be
Observations · Education · Society · Humour
The rule for spelling the suffixes of Russian present active participles
By the way, why is it a pack of "barking" and not "barkaing" dogs from the Western kennels? Because in the suffixes of the active present participles, that is, those formed with the suffixes -ushch (-yushch) / -ashch (-yashch), we write the letter u or yu if
Faith · Observations · Heritage · Rome · Humour
A Second Floor Level Is Being Built in the Sistine Chapel to Protect the Historic Pavement During the Conclave
A False Floor Goes Up in the Sistine Chapel, and Then We Shall Be Told: Heaven forbid, no under-the-carpet manoeuvres! The floor of the Sistine Chapel has been covered with a protective layer, and a platform is being erected on top of it to serve as a second
NB! · London · Museums · Palaeontology · Humour
A model of a mammoth is kept at the Natural History Museum in London
London's Natural History Museum houses the most charming mammoth of all times and peoples. A model, not the real thing
Faith · Art · Books · Humour
Book against the papacy by Huguenot pastor Steverslot, published in Holland in 1720
A Robo-Pope in an Engraving from an Anti-Catholic Publication of the Eighteenth Century. A book of 1720 with the witty title "Pope's Porridge Served on the Dishes of the Huguenots, Considering the Papal Rise, Idolatry and Abuses in the Veneration of Images, as well as
NB! · Geography · Maps · Observations · Humour
Next time you hear tales of a successful career, remember this map of the Mediterranean, which very modestly calls itself "The Career of Julius Caesar"
Observations · Humour
Neurogymnastics is trying to write Khrushchev's surname in Polish
Chruszczow, sure you've got it?