A single-storey orange-brown wooden house with white window frames and a stone base. It stands on a quiet street under tall trees, behind a corrugated metal fence.

NB! · Observations

Single-storey wooden house with white window frames behind a metal fence

NB! · Architecture · Art · Museums

Atlas, carved by Michelangelo around 1530–1534 for the unfinished project for the tomb of Pope Julius II, collection of the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence

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What Above All to Remember When Making Plans for the Future

Dense green bushes and trees at the edge of a meadow, a path on the left and a white tent-roofed church far away. Large white clouds fill the blue sky.

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Green thickets in a park under a cloudy sky, a white church in the distance

NB! · Faith · Art

Saint Augustine in His Cell

Saint Augustine in his cell. Fresco in the church of Ognissanti in Florence, painted by Sandro Botticelli around 1480

Gilded wooden cross-shaped panel with the crucified Christ and figures of the Virgin and Saint John at his sides, hanging on a museum wall.

NB! · Faith · Art · Museums · Rome

Processional crucifix by an Umbrian painter of 1260–1270 in the Vatican Pinacoteca

Processional Crucifix painted by an Umbrian artist, 1260–1270. Vatican Pinacoteca

Two boys in swim caps walk along the pool edge. Above them rise tiers of yellow galleries with blue changing cabins, a mosaic frieze and the sign "Priere de ne pas courir".

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Children at a swimming pool with yellow walls and blue doors in an Art Deco interior

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Topical Reading

NB! · Science · Palaeontology · Nature

A new species of ant, Aethiocarenus burmanicus, with a triangular head and bulging eyes able to look backwards, discovered by scientists of Oregon State University in a piece of amber 100 million years old

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Helen of Troy in Nolan's Film, Once White People Appear in Shot

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David Hockney and His Painting "Peter Getting Out of Nick's Pool" in Los Angeles in 1966

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Vandalism in Venice

Vandalism in Venice. The damage done to a sacred aedicule with an image of the Virgin Mary, not far from the Papadopoli Hotel, is the thanks of Christian Europe from the hordes of Afro-Arab "doctors and engineers". The Reconquista is inevitable