People · Nature · Humour

Aviator Ila Fox Loetscher began rescuing sea turtles in Texas after the age of fifty

The best years behind her, the joys of a beloved occupation in the past, the children grown, and a beloved husband suddenly dead: this is how the depressed heroines of television serials on Channel Two usually look. Such was also the shape of life after fifty for Ila Fox Loetscher

Art · Monarchies · Observations · Mores · Nature

Potato flowers in the hairstyle of an 1783 portrait by Alexander Roslin

This portrait of 1783 by the eighteenth-century Swedish painter Alexander Roslin is sometimes called a portrait of Marie Antoinette, more rarely of Madame de Lamballe; in catalogues the picture passes as a portrait of an unknown lady, which sounds closer to the truth. But what is interesting is not

Art · Mores · Nature

There was a time when some fruits were so exotic that artists painted their portraits

There was a time when some fruits were so exotic that artists painted their portraits. So it was with this distinguished pineapple, grown in the garden of Sir Matthew Decker at Richmond, Surrey. Dutch painter Theodorus Netscher, 1720

Observations · Society · Nature · Humour

Some do not believe that a mere few thousand years ago people, covered in hair and clad in a pitiful semblance of clothing or none at all, could run about with sticks, huddle into herds and display behaviour of the most thoroughly animal kind, explaining

Some do not believe that a mere few thousand years ago people, covered in hair and clad in a pitiful semblance of clothing or none at all, could run about with sticks, huddle into herds and display behaviour of the most thoroughly animal kind, explaining it by saying that man

NB! · Architecture · Geography · Nature

A city above the abyss: Ronda, Andalusia, Spain

A city above the abyss: Ronda, Andalusia, Spain. The most famous sights of this picturesque town are the Puente Nuevo bridge, built in the 18th century and linking the old part of the city with the new, and the bullring

Painting of churning blue-green water in front of old brick and wooden buildings with a water wheel.

NB! · Art · Nature

“The Water Mill”, a 1892 painting by the Norwegian artist Frits Thaulow

This is not nature grown pure, but the astonishingly realistic water of the Norwegian painter Frits Thaulow. The Watermill, 1892

A zigzag bolt of lightning strikes a tree on a lawn, its trunk glowing orange under a grey sky.

Nature · Humour

Photograph of lightning striking a tree on a lawn and a joke about plant pain

A West Virginia Woman Photographs the Moment Lightning Strikes a Tree. If one believes that plants feel pain, the neighbours on the lawn will have heard a very long and piercing "aaaaaow"

NB! · New York · Nature · Humour

The most dangerous animal in nature: the very sign the Bronx Zoo hung above a mirror in 1963

Aerial photo of a giant cat-shaped geoglyph on a desert hillside, with a fenced path running alongside it.

NB! · Archaeology · Geography · Nature

A 2,000-year-old geoglyph of a cat found on the Nazca plateau in Peru

This kitty from Peru is 2,000 years old. The giant geoglyph was discovered a few years ago on the famous Nazca plateau, where there are dozens of figures of people, birds, mammals and other objects and shapes

NB! · Heritage · Nature · Humour

Agatha Christie's Parrot Discovered

Science · Nature

Chimpanzee brutally beaten to death with stones and sticks, then partly eaten and left to the beasts of his former tyrant

Chimpanzee brutally beaten to death with stones and sticks, then partly eaten and left to the beasts of his former tyrant. The wounds on the body showed that, before his death, the cruel alpha male had been held down by the arms while other primates rained blows upon him. The

NB! · Faith · Heritage · Nature

Priests and a dog in a chapel inside the trunk of an ancient oak at the Holy Nicholas Hermitage Monastery, Koropsky District, Chernihiv Region, Ukraine