Observations · Pop Culture · Humour

Beach outfit of wool and silk and a hat with Egyptian motifs

Next in line: a double daiquiri with ice. The beach ensemble: loose blue trousers of fine wool and a silk top. In the original hat of palm fibre you will notice Egyptian motifs. Come now, have you noticed? And what if it were to come into fashion, and at the

Books · Observations · People · Humour

Writer, Wizard, Mall Santa, Rasputin Impersonator

Writer, wizard, mall Santa, Rasputin impersonator. Now that, I understand, is a solid CV. You're hired, Alan Moore

NB! · Humour

Naming at Altitude

NB! · Art · Museums · Humour

A Sixteenth-Century Woollen Headdress, in Case You Are Cast as a Dog in a Theatrical Production

NB! · Observations · Humour

Still Lynch or Already Odin?

Archive · Art · Monarchies · Society · People · Saint Petersburg · Humour

VICTIM OF THE NEW ORDER

Mathilde Kschessinska: My intimate relations with the old government came easily to me: it consisted of just one man. But what am I to do now, when the new government, the Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies, consists of 2,000 people? Caricature by Nikolai Remizov (Re-Mi)

Art · Monarchies · People · Humour

Henry VIII: the Mouse King?

Cornelis Massys, 1548

NB! · Cinema · Pop Culture · Humour

Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts, Order of Merlin, Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot, Supreme Mugwump of the International Confederation of Wizards, founder and head of the Order of the Phoenix, 67 sales with Avito delivery, p

NB! · Observations · Society · Humour

The Beautiful Civilisation of the West, and the Wretched Ideological Superstructures That Will Drop Off It of Their Own Accord in the Fullness of Time

NB! · Humour

A Curious Fact

Cinema · Books · Observations · Humour

Short Stories and Novel Excerpts by Dostoevsky in Children's Anthologies

Dostoevsky: The Complete Collection of World Children's Literature. Spotted in Satoshi Kon's anime film "Tokyo Godfathers" When it comes to Dostoevsky and children, the following works are usually included in children's anthologies: the stories "Marey the Peasant", "The Boy

Geography · Maps · Observations · Humour

Area distortion on Mercator maps, with Greenland and Macron's head as examples

For all who have forgotten how the Mercator-type maps we usually use distort sizes, a reminder in the form of this photograph of Emmanuel Macron with his forehead in the Mercator projection. This is precisely how the inconstancy of scale on Mercator maps expresses itself, and precisely why the