NB! · The East · Art · Nature
Depiction of a tiger by an unknown South Asian artist of the early 19th century
The Sad Tiger. Unknown South Asian artist, 1815 to the 1820s.
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A trip to the Russian Post Office taught me that in 2016 and 2017 25-rouble coins were issued to mark the World Cup, bearing the trophy, the tournament emblem and Zabivaka the wolf, and that they are worth anything from 50 to 7,500 roubles depending on ra
A trip to the Russian Post Office taught me that in 2016 and 2017 25-rouble coins were issued to mark the World Cup, bearing the trophy, the tournament emblem and Zabivaka the wolf, and that they are worth anything from 50 to 7,500 roubles depending on rarity. In
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Vintage fashion doll in a red dress and coat with a fur collar
NB! · Humour
Isn't It a Little Early for You to Be Skiing, Young Man?
NB! · Geography · Moscow · Nature
Moscow Weather in the Hottest Summer in the History of Observations
NB! · Observations · Education
A small private joy: no school or university to get up for today
NB! · Faith · Observations
The Uniform of the Vatican's Swiss Guard in the Seventeenth and Twenty-First Centuries
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BBC News reports an elephant on the loose near a supermarket in southern Italy
Are elephants roaming Italy again? All we needed was another Punic War
NB! · Aristocracy · Monarchies · People · Pop Culture
Princess Margaret, evidently, knew what style was
NB! · Art · Museums · Saint Petersburg
Statue of Octavian Augustus in the Guise of Jupiter, Hermitage
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Venus Anadyomene, rising from the sea, as painted by Botticelli (1484-86), Titian (1522), Poussin (1635-36) and Cornelis de Vos (1651)
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