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A French Soldier Lights a Cigarette for a Macedonian Child during the First World War
A German soldier offers a cigarette to a Serbian child. What touching, unfeigned solicitude for childhood.
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Man Ray, Éluard, Dalí, Breton and Crevel change places in a photograph of the Surrealists
The Surrealists have changed seats. Man Ray has moved to Paul Éluard's place, Paul Éluard to Dalí's, Dalí to André Breton's, André Breton to René Crevel's, and René Crevel to Man Ray's. Tristan Tzara, Jean Arp, Yves Tanguy and Max
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Don't Worry, They Are Not Enjoying Themselves, They Are Only Pretending
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The Main Thing Is Not to Mix Anything Up
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So Franklin, Apparently, Is Our Venya!
NB! · Monarchies · Science · Pop Culture · Humour
Woman sees face of Princess Diana in slice of tinned ham
A woman has seen the face of Princess Diana in a slice of tinned ham. Though it looks rather more like Margaret Thatcher, my dear, or like pareidolia, the psychological phenomenon whereby people see faces in all manner of everyday objects, surfaces, abstract textures and details of the landscape
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Admins Every Morning, While You Sleep
NB! · Aristocracy · Archive · Monarchies · Saint Petersburg · Humour
Grand Dukes Vladimir Alexandrovich and Alexander Alexandrovich, Duke Nikolai Maximilianovich of Leuchtenberg and Duke Albert of Saxe-Altenburg amuse themselves with a camera in Saint Petersburg of the 1860s as best they can
Archive · Nature · Humour
Monkey at sea mistaken for a person, rescued by boat, swims away again
In 1950 a solitary male proboscis monkey was spotted far out in the South China Sea. The passengers of a cruise liner mistook the animal for a human being, and a boat was lowered to go to its assistance. The monkey clambered aboard, rested for a while, but then leapt
NB! · Art · Museums · Humour
Knights Don't Want to Leave Their Beds Either, but a New Working Week Lies Ahead
Art · Observations · Saint Petersburg · Humour
I know nothing about this magazine, except that its cover shows a Leningrad Porcelain Factory figurine, "Fire Horse", with its legs chipped off in exactly the same way as on an identical statuette I threw away a couple of years ago
I know nothing about this magazine, except that its cover shows a Leningrad Porcelain Factory figurine, "Fire Horse", with its legs chipped off in exactly the same way as on an identical statuette I threw away a couple of years ago. Can such coincidences happen, or has the
NB! · Art · Moscow · Society Pages · Humour
Photograph with Trump at the Lumière Gallery stand at Cosmoscow
The Trump idea was a good one, well done! Stand of the Lumière Gallery, Cosmoscow