Faith · Mores · Humour
A woman asks the preacher Abbé Mugnier:. "Father, when I look at myself in the mirror and exclaim, 'How beautiful I am!', is that a sin?" "No, madam, merely a mistake."
London · Mores · Society
Today, as on every second Saturday of November since 1215, the Lord Mayor's Show was held in the City of London. One of the oldest civic processions in Europe brings together the most ancient guilds, municipal services, the military, diplomats and ordinary citizens, and is devoted to the
NB! · Architecture · Mores
Geography · Moscow · Mores · People
Is It Wise to Swap Seats on Trains and Aeroplanes? Neither especially celebrated nor especially popular, but nonetheless leaving her mark on the history of the theatre, Vera Alekseyevna Shukhmina, an actress of the Maly Theatre, received an unexpected dismissal in 1925. A woman not yet old, proud and good-
Books · Observations · Mores · Humour
The nineteenth-century American abolitionist and writer Lydia Maria Child, in her book "The Mother's Book" of advice on thrifty housekeeping for those of modest means, gives a veeeery strange recipe for cooking a pigeon. The vegetables she bids one boil for an hour at the
Archive · Books · Moscow · Mores · People · Humour
At a meeting of the members of the writers' housing cooperative, engaged in building a five-storey residential House of Soviet Writers and adding storeys to two neighbouring houses in Nashchokin Lane and a house in Kamergersky Lane (Proyezd MKhAT), Mikhail Bulgakov expressed surprise that a certain Comrade B-
Observations · Mores · Humour
I know that everyone but me got rid of their antique metal beds long ago, and more's the pity. Here is an excellent couch, both for the interior and for comfort: a steel officer's bed of the 1800s. One need only add a handsome cover for
Art · Museums · Mores · Humour
That is what the painting is actually called. The artist is Akhmet Kitayev, and it belongs to the collection of the Simferopol Art Museum. The canvas dates from 1954, yet the mise-en-scène is thoroughly modern. The family scene, familiar to everyone, recalls Squid Game more than anything else:
London · Monarchies · Mores
Spurs are part of the full-dress uniform of a colonel in the British Army. At his wedding Prince William wore the ceremonial uniform of a colonel of the Irish Guards and likewise jingled his spurs. The female colonel's uniform, however, does not include spurs: women are supposed
NB! · Observations · Mores · Humour
Art · Museums · Mores · Humour
The Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens makes skilful use of the theme of eroticism in its display. Naked youths demonstrate quite plainly the purpose of the clay vessels known as the aryballos and the alabastron, in which aromatic oils for rubbing into the skin were kept, and of the
Archive · Mores · Humour
A man shot dead at a ball for treading on a lady's foot and refusing to apologise. 1898