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The Corinthian Order Was Surely Where One Ought to Have Stopped
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The Virgin Mary crushes the devil while an angel holds the infant Jesus
A reminder to one and all that the Mother of God will come and restore order
Books · Observations · Humour
You lot might want to check that
You lot might want to check that. Garage did not publish one and a half million books, however tempting it is to dazzle with handsome figures. What it did was print one and a half million copies of some fixed number of titles, I don't know, perhaps 100
Observations · Science · Society · Nature · Humour
Despite the sudden loss of 1.6 million bee colonies in a mass die-off across the US in a single year, the Trump administration plans to close the USDA's leading bee research laboratory
Between June 2024 and March 2025, 1.6 million bee colonies died in the United States. It is the largest single die-off in the country's history. Many beekeepers lost between 60 and 80% of their hives, and some lost 9 of 12 colonies in a single winter.
In the Press · Observations · Education · People · Humour
He was physically abused, maybe even sexually abused
A Cambridge lecturer on the childhood of Ivan the Terrible. As the saying goes, this is as far as your education has taken you Fortunately, in this case the British scholar is not, after all, a professional historian, nor indeed a scholar at all, but merely gives lectures in adult
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Why can we never get it into our heads that black is white, and felling trees is "improvement"
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"The Fly", a sculptural installation by the contemporary Bulgarian artist and sculptor Georgi Balabanov, placed on the wall of the House of Humour and Satire in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, in 2011
Books · Humour
The fool is always sure to thrive, And wise men find in him their solace; But should the fool be rich, The wise man is to him not merely brother, But slave and flatterer, and therein he sins
Alexander Sumarokov, "On Fools"
Art · Ethnography · Humour
The sixteenth-century Flemish painting "The Legend of the Baker of Eeklo" tells a diverting folk tale about the inhabitants of the town of Eeklo, dissatisfied with their faces or their wits, who turned to the local baker for correction
But for the correction to be made, the unsuccessful head first had to be severed from the body, washed, dusted with flour and basted with egg yolks, and then slid into the oven on a baker's peel. In the meantime, a cabbage head was set in place of
Ethnography · Humour
One fool can throw a stone into the water that ten wise men cannot fish out
Russian proverb
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Spouses Boris Dmitrievich and Maria Vasilyevna Vostryakov flagrantly flout Venice's 2008 ban on feeding pigeons, punishable by a fine of up to 500 euros, on their honeymoon in 1898
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