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Physical signs of men and women in an old book, with a note on exceptions
The Marks of a Manly Body: a Large Head, a Red or Swarthy Face, Somewhat Sunken Eyes, Shoulders and Body Quite Broad, a Protruding Chest, a Wide Belly. The signs of the female form: a small head, a white face somewhat flushed or pale, black eyes, a steady gaze, a
NB! · Art · Mores · People
Pavel Kovalevsky, The Flogging, 1880
Observations · Mores
Conversation with a 92-year-old friend, a colonel, who left a palliative care ward alive
I was talking to a friend of mine, who is 92 and was recently moved from intensive care to a palliative ward, from which he emerged alive by some miracle. No one believed in it any longer. A colonel, a highly educated and active man, he said these words: "
Art · Books · Mores
Plutarch on how the Spartans showed drunken slaves to young men
They would often make the slaves drink wine until they were insensible, and lead them out in that state into public places, to show the young men what a hideous spectacle a man presents who has lost his reason to wine. They also made them dance indecent dances and sing
NB! · Archive · Mores · Paris
A Child Walks a Little Dog in Montmartre in 1904
NB! · Archive · Mores · Humour
Lapus and Zaya
Lapus and Zaya. So your cloying pet names for one another are officially classic, and have been since 1924. LAPUS AND ZAYA!
Faith · Art · Mores
The Orthodox All Saints' Day and Halloween have no cultural link and fall at different times
All Saints' Day, Vasily Kandinsky, 1911. Despite the similarity of name, the Orthodox feast glorifying All Saints, and sanctity itself, has no cultural kinship with Halloween, which is also styled All Saints' Day. On All Saints' Day it is of course the custom to remember in prayer
NB! · Archive · Science · Mores · Humour
Early 20th-century advertisement for the Yuvenator electrotherapy apparatus
A memo from an early twentieth-century advertisement for electrotherapy: despair and dejection will do you no good, but electricity will. And, you know, they did not lie
Faith · Books · Mores
Bürger’s Ballad “Lenore” and Zhukovsky’s Adaptations “Lyudmila” and “Svetlana”
Frederick II's troops were returning home after the Battle of Prague in 1757. Young Lenore awaited her Wilhelm, but he was not among those who came back. Lenore's heart contracted with pain, and complaints against the will of God burst from her through her tears. When
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Why is Trump called vulgar, while Macrons is not, given all this?
Observations · Mores · People · Nature
Robespierre's Childhood Love of Birds and the Death of a Pigeon in a Storm
As a boy, Robespierre was mad about birds and kept sparrows and pigeons as pets. Once his sisters asked to borrow one of his pigeons and ended up leaving it outside during a storm, and the bird died. On learning of this, Robespierre flew into a rage and wept for