Observations · Palaeontology · Nature
Sicilian dwarf elephants stood no more than 1.8 metres tall and 1 metre at the shoulder. They are believed to have descended from a population of a large-bodied species, as did certain other dwarf elephants and mammoths that lived locally on the islands of the Mediterranean. Normal, large
NB! · Geography · Nature · Reportage
Venice today. A small deluge in the square in front of the Archaeological Museum
Faith · Museums · Science · Education · Palaeontology · Nature
The previous video records the welcoming ceremony for the installation of Dippy the Diplodocus skeleton from the Natural History Museum in Norwich Cathedral. Dippy is one of the most famous dinosaurs in the world. Since 1979, tens of millions of people have seen him every year on visiting Britain'
Archive · London · Museums · Heritage · Nature · Humour
If they call you a paper-pusher (literally, an "office rat"), don't be upset. After all, there was once a rat with a fondness for paperwork who became a co-founder of the National Archives of the United Kingdom. When the public figure, inventor and all-
NB! · Art · Mores · Nature
A pet squirrel will surprise no one, but a domestic flying squirrel on a golden lead is a great rarity, even by the standards of the eighteenth century. 1765, John Singleton Copley, portrait of his half-brother Henry Pelham
Art · Moscow · Heritage · People · Nature
In the Stock Greenhouse of the Tsitsin Main Botanical Garden, the decorative treatment of the doors has been touchingly preserved: panels of dried plants assembled by the Soviet artist Sofya Vasilyevna Matveyeva (1904-1986). Sofya Matveyeva worked in the Main Botanical Garden almost from its founding, under Nikolai Tsitsin himself,
Science · Nature
A grisly photograph from the Utah Conservation Officers Association. The story unfolded in North Carolina some 35 years ago: a hunter shot a deer and, when he began to butcher the carcass, discovered a strange formation in the region of the ribs. The later reconstructions were carried out by scientists
Art · Observations · Nature
In a mushroom-pickers' group I came across an account by the artist Maria Katkova, who says she once created several works from mushroom ink. What is that, exactly? The artist explains the recipe: if you pick an ink cap, place it on a saucer and watch, you may
Science · Society · Nature
In the 1940s, Finnish botanists began recording plants in Finland that had never grown in those habitats, and, curiously enough, they were found at the sites where units of a foreign army had been stationed. For such plants, introduced into an ecosystem as a result of military action, a term
Faith · People · Nature
9 June is the feast day of Saint Columba, one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland, who lived in the 6th century. By and large, the most important thing you need to know about this much venerated Irish and Scottish saint is this: there exists a written mention of his
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NB! · Art · Observations · Nature · Humour