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An AEC Matador meets a little Rytecraft in Cardiff, 1935
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Archaeology · Observations · Science · Humour
Prehistoric Danes kept hunting and fishing as their main sources of sustenance even centuries after the arrival of agriculture!
Now there's a discovery! People went on procuring food outside agricultural practices, despite their appearance. When I hear scientific conclusions of this kind, I am never quite sure: is this the result of some extraterrestrial ethnographic expedition? For whom, other than extraterrestrials, could it possibly come as a
Observations · Society · Humour
Friends, painting even the largest swimming pool in the world cannot possibly cost 13 million dollars
Friends, painting even the largest swimming pool in the world cannot possibly cost 13 million dollars. Unless it is the pool of some middling river with its tributaries. Officials, for all that, are the same the world over. And the most dreadful thing is that the social order which allows
NB! · Observations · Humour
Don't you think that's rather a lot of preliminaries for assembling a simple IKEA bedside table?
NB! · Observations · Humour
When You Have Counted How Many Days Off Lie Ahead
Cinema · Humour
Andrey Urgant, Roman Kartsev and Zinovy Gerdt on the set of "The Drayman and the King" in Odessa in 1989
The Soviet musical is, of course, quite the oxymoron. But Vladimir Alenikov's "The Drayman and the King" is a rare case in which the genre does not turn a classic into a sideshow, but merely sharpens the wit and sadness of the original. Before the viewer
NB! · Observations · Humour
A Serbian Lady Is Quite Something
NB! · Observations · Society · Humour
If only one could now be cheerfully applauding the wise policy of Lenin and Stalin, instead of all this
The East · Observations · Society · Humour
With a Light Wave of the Hand, Donald Trump Becomes an Elegant Turkmenbashi, Whose Face Stood at Once on Banknotes, School Textbooks and State Documents, and in Whose Honour the Months of the Calendar Were Renamed
For the 250th anniversary of the United States, the State Department will issue a special print run of passports bearing Trump's face and signature on the inside cover, over the text of the Declaration of Independence. American passports have never before carried a living president. Trump's
Society · Humour
“Mr President, you recently said that if it were not for the United States, Europeans would be speaking German
“Mr President, you recently said that if it were not for the United States, Europeans would be speaking German. I venture to suggest that if it were not for us, you would be speaking French.” When playing the Anglo-American game of the subjunctive mood, the main thing is not
Cinema · Moscow · Heritage · Humour
Ilyukhina, that photo where you seem to be sneaking into the Kremlin is legendary
In real life, one ought to be rather careful with such objects, of course. Besides fines and arrest, such a prank could carry several other cheerless consequences: a preventive entry in the databases of the security services, registration with a psychiatrist, referral for compulsory psychiatric evaluation and, naturally, compensation for
Archaeology · London · Science · Humour
Around 1700, a Young Man of Obscure Origins Was Wandering About Europe
Around 1700, a young man of obscure origins was wandering about Europe. He went through several legends before settling on the most advantageous of them, announcing himself a native of the island of Formosa. Under the name of George Psalmanazar he made his way to London, where he found a