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NB! · Observations · Society · Humour
Complaint about prolonged days off and their effect on business activity
Good Lord, it turns out today is still a day off. How much longer? Can anyone explain why there are so many non-working days? It literally paralyses every form of business activity; surely people have rested enough by now?
Art · Books · Observations · Humour
Denizens of Moominvalley, wake up: the holidays are over!
Drawing by Tove Jansson
Books · Mores · Humour
Such are our relations: we are bound to pet them, to love them, to respect them from the heart and, after the custom of the people, to visit them at Christmas or congratulate them by post, so that for the rest of the year they should not think of us... An
Such are our relations: we are bound to pet them, To love them, to respect them from the heart And, after the custom of the people, To visit them at Christmas Or congratulate them by post, So that for the rest of the year They should not think of us.
Monarchies · Society · Humour
King Frederik X Alters the Arms of the Kingdom of Denmark in Response to Trump's Remarks about Buying Greenland
The arms of the Faroe Islands, a silver ram, and of Greenland, a silver polar bear, both of which had shared a single field since 1819, now occupy fields of their own. To make room, the three crowned azure lions with hearts had to go, symbolising as they did the
NB! · Cinema · Books · Observations · Humour
A comment exchange on whether discussing a film differs from discussing the book
What came first: the adaptation or the text. One of the unresolvable philosophical dilemmas of our age
NB! · Books · People · Humour
Advice of the Day from Alexandr Petrovich Sumarokov
Architecture · Society · Saint Petersburg · Humour
Just in Time!
Just in time! A triumphal column is to be erected in Saint Petersburg in memory of Russia's victory in the Great Northern War of 1700-21. The idea of a triumphal column is more than three hundred years old: the first design was drawn up under Peter himself,
NB! · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Humour
Even "clever" algorithms do not quite grasp that the Pushkin Museum and the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts are NOT THE SAME THING
Cinema · Books · London · Observations · Humour
Jane Conan Doyle, Holmes actors and the expertise of an author's heirs
The Younger Daughter of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dame Jean Conan Doyle, on How the Actor Jeremy Brett Came to Meet Her:. “He was charming. He was the only actor who played Sherlock Holmes who bothered to get in touch with me and come to see me. All this time
NB! · Humour
Oh, Those Mothers
NB! · Art · Observations · Humour