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Very mediocre rulers are reborn as gel polish, so that something good may at last be said of them
NB! · Art · Museums · Humour
Citrus Still Life by Rafael Romeo Barros, 1863
Rafael Romeo Barros reminds us that the most tangerine season of the year is upon us. 1863.
NB! · Observations · Society · Humour
Comparing the looks of young Donald Trump and young Winston Churchill
In looks alone, the young Donald Trump bears some resemblance to the young Winston Churchill. Or does he not?
NB! · Pop Culture · Nature · Humour
The Doggystyle Calendar by the Austrian Photographer Daniel Gebhard
NB! · Art · Humour
Two Violins
Two violins. One painting belongs to Pablo Picasso, 1912, the other to Lyubov Popova, 1915. Guess which is whose?
NB! · Society · Humour
In fact, the most level-headed outcome of the American elections looks like this
Cinema · Science · Nature · Humour
The famous horse celebrated for being able to read and count is believed to have perished during the First World War
In its day, the mental powers of this horse astonished the European public. Investigators, however, were able to establish that the horse could neither count nor read after all, but could pick up even the slightest changes in a person's facial expression, and it was this that helped
NB! · Observations · Humour
Spare Your Nerves, It Is Only Tuesday
Archive · Art · Books · Humour
Mikhail Belomlinsky drew a house for Kostyor magazine where Valya and Baba Yaga live
Valya and Baba Yaga, or, as the estate agents say, "Wonderful, considerate neighbours!" Illustration for the magazine Kostyor. Mikhail Samuilovich Belomlinsky
Archive · Art · Humour
No Bremen residence permit, no leave!
Illustration from the magazine Krokodil, Viktor Alexandrovich Chizhikov
Architecture · Moscow · Observations · Mores · Humour
Grocery store in the basement level of the high-rise on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment
On the whole, Pyaterochka fits rather well into the interiors of a palace of late socialism. The grocery shop on the lower ground floor of the high-rise on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment