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By the way, according to one version, after her death Helen of Troy became the wife of Achilles
Death could have overtaken Helen, for example, by way of a sea nymph who appeared in the guise of a seal
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Princess Tarakanova, Konstantin Flavitsky, 1862, and Lady Jane Grey, Paul Delaroche, 1833
How much drama there is in a single movement of the hands of these women of tragic fate
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Those Very Lecturers Whose Words Fly Straight Past the Ears
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The correct form is Levi-Strauss, not Levi-Strauss
NB! · Monarchies · Museums · Humour
Prince William and Kate at the Kraków wax museum are, on the whole, indistinguishable from the real thing
NB! · Cinema · People · Pop Culture · Humour
It turns out that Théoden of Rohan also found time to captain the Titanic
It turns out that Théoden of Rohan also found time to captain the Titanic. The question "where was Gondor when we needed help?" acquires a new ring
NB! · Observations · Society · Pop Culture · Humour
Tucker Carlson in the Heraldic Colours of the Russian Empire
Books · Observations · Science · Nature · Humour
Poem “The Struggle for Existence”, dedicated to Darwin, about a summer on the Istra
I read Yegor Kholmogorov's thorough rebuke of believers in Darwinism, and recalled a poem by the satirist Pyotr Shumakher (1817-1891), dedicated to Darwin himself. The Struggle for Existence (Dedicated to Darwin) I was on the Istra this summer, In a remote, forgotten corner; I lived as a
NB! · Museums · New York · Palaeontology · Nature · Humour
Model of a calf of an extinct pygmy elephant at the American Museum of Natural History
The enchanting model of a dwarf elephant calf at the American Museum of Natural History is one of the sweetest things ever made by the exhibition department of any museum whatsoever. The calf is no larger than a pet dog, while the adult of this extinct species stood a mere
Education · Society · Humour
Until 1956, when the sole code of Russian spelling and punctuation, approved by the authorities and the USSR Academy of Sciences, was adopted, the verbs ПРИЙТИ, ПРИДТИ and even ПРИТТИ were all considered equally valid; after the reform, only ПРИЙТИ…
Until 1956, when the sole code of Russian spelling and punctuation, approved by the authorities and the USSR Academy of Sciences, was adopted, the verbs ПРИЙТИ, ПРИДТИ and even ПРИТТИ were all considered equally valid; after the reform, only ПРИЙТИ was left as correct. So if you still spell it
NB! · Cinema · Observations · Humour
Is it even legal for Netflix's Alexander to wear the same armour as Netflix's Vikings?
Observations · Science · Humour
The American mathematician Claude Shannon, who coined the term "bit", founded information theory and worked as a cryptanalyst and engineer, once said: "I visualise a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans"
How soon do you think it will be?