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Let us assume that the horses of the Apocalypse have already galloped through London, or at least two of the four?
Although it is reported in some quarters that there were in fact four frightened horses which bolted from a cavalry rehearsal in the Belgravia area and covered the distance to Shadwell in the east of London, injuring themselves and some of those they met along the way
Science · Pop Culture · Humour
A meme on how the world is full of physics for those who never studied magic
So invisibility cloaks are possible thanks to nanotechnology, metalenses and metamaterials, which bend light away from the concealed area, hiding it? As the well-known meme has it, for those who never studied magic, the world is full of physics
Observations · Education · Society · Humour
A professor whose name may not be mentioned reports that, at a university whose name may not be mentioned, doctoral applicants write a special letter on the history of their vulnerability
A professor whose name may not be mentioned reports that, at a university whose name may not be mentioned, doctoral applicants write a special letter on the history of their vulnerability. A special committee, which did not exist ten years ago, awards them points on a certain scale and then
Architecture · Observations · Humour
The author examines a hole in the grand hall of Princess Serebryakova's mansion
Other People: Listening to the Lecture and Watching the Lecturer's Facial Expressions and Gestures. Me: Gazing at the breach in the wall of the state drawing room of Princess Serebryakova's mansion. How did you come to be here, my dear, by what fortunes, and how long
NB! · Observations · Humour
A kind reminder that life is a struggle
Books · Observations · Humour
In the closing stanzas of "The Little House in Kolomna", Pushkin makes an unexpected remark on the subject of gender
In the closing stanzas of "The Little House in Kolomna", Pushkin makes an unexpected remark on the subject of gender. The jocular ending looks like a parody of the moralising pronouncements that were customary in the conclusions to depictions of the passions in his day, but in our
NB! · Geography · Museums · Humour
All Olympian gods who descend for a short while into a mortal body to wander the city streets, the taverns or, as in our case, the museums, must bear in mind that the road from Athens to Mount Olympus is no short one, and the journey by post-horse will ta
Archive · Art · Museums · Humour
“Two Hermeses”: guide Nikolaos Zafeiropoulos beside the statue of Hermes in an Athens museum, 1935
Hermes in Marble and Hermes in the Flesh. In 1935 the photojournalist Vasilios Tsakirakis took a photograph of a stranger in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. The man, who turned out to be a guide named Nikolaos Zafeiropoulos, proved to be uncannily like the statue of Hermes, a copy
NB! · Archive · Mores · Humour
Medieval beekeepers' costumes and their kinship with modern fashion
The costumes of medieval beekeepers were well ahead of their time. Today, they are the very height of fashion
Art · Monarchies · Mores · Paris · People · Humour
The Marquise de Montespan as Judith, Thriftily Holding On to the Severed Head of Holofernes
Once more, for the record: the Marquise de Montespan, mistress of Louis XIV and mother of seven of his children, in the guise of the Old Testament heroine Judith, the young widow who saved besieged Judea by cutting off the head of Nebuchadnezzar's general Holofernes, whom she had
NB! · Observations · People · Humour