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Donald Trump's 1990 visit to Japan and his meeting with the Emperor 27 years later

A rather amusing episode concerning Donald Trump's meeting with the Japanese Emperor Akihito, described in Harry Hurt's book "Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump" The author tells of Trump's business visit to Japan in 1990. If the book is

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The mother of the composer Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, Yevgenia Andreyevna Glinka-Zemelka, married her second cousin Ivan Nikolayevich Glinka and became a Glinka, but without the Zemelka

NB! · Nature · Humour

One Ostrich Power Is Not Such a Small Amount of Horsepower After All

Black-and-white portrait of an elderly man in a cap with a very long beard, in which a small black kitten sits.

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Frenchman Louis Coulon, with a beard 3.5 metres long, posed for postcards

The Frenchman Louis Coulon and his beard of three and a half metres, in which a cat could be hidden. And, very likely, a cow. The old gentleman grew his beard and made his living by being photographed for comic postcards

Art · Nature · Humour

The singerie genre and the fashion for monkeys in human dress in Flanders and France

The depiction of monkeys in human guise in various comic situations became a distinct genre in the 16th and 17th centuries. This parodic genre was called singerie, from the French for "monkey business". Monkeys in human attire first appeared in Flemish painting; it is enough to name Pieter

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Monolisa 2.0: A New Picture for a New World!

Monolisa 2.0: A new picture for a new world! The art of our own day. If this is not genius, then what is?

Moscow · Observations · Society · Humour

Yesterday the ladies seated next to me in the auditorium were discussing the price of tickets to the Bolshoi, and concluded that it would be better to buy plane tickets and fly off to see "Spartacus" at the Novosibirsk Theatre

Yesterday the ladies seated next to me in the auditorium were discussing the price of tickets to the Bolshoi, and concluded that it would be better to buy plane tickets and fly off to see "Spartacus" at the Novosibirsk Theatre. The company is splendid, the production is praised,

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Good morning!

Good morning! Has anyone seen Papa?

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Brothers Carduccios Plantagenet and Morston Constantine, Artists from Ohio

The Edible, Exceedingly Appetising Still Lifes of the American Painter Carduccius Plantagenet Ream (1838-1917) And note that Carduccius Plantagenet is his given name; his brother, also a well-known painter, was called Morston Constantine. They were born in Ohio, and Carduccius studied in London. We must, of course, pay

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Lucas Cranach shrewdly observed that one small bite of the forbidden fruit was quite enough for Adam and Eve

Map of Kiribati showing white land on a blue ocean with markers for London, Paris, Poland and Banana.

Geography · Humour

Map of Kiribati with settlements named London, Paris, Poland and Banana

London-Paris-Poland-Banana. everything you need to know about Kiribati

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Dutch provinces as a cow in a 16th-century caricature with Philip II, Elizabeth and William of Orange

The Dutch provinces in the guise of a cow: Philip II of Spain tries to ride her, Elizabeth, Queen of England, feeds her, while William the Silent, Prince of Orange, puts his mouth to the udder to milk her. The Duke of Anjou, who holds the beast by the tail,