NB! · Observations

Thank you, my love ❤️ I dream of when we shall finally spend an evening together

Triptych: two museum skeletons of a tall flightless bird with a long neck, and a painting of a dark-feathered bird of the same kind standing in grass.

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Skeletons and a painted reconstruction of a giant flightless bird resembling a moa

NB! · Palaeontology · Nature

The moa: giant dinornithiform birds, up to 3.6 metres tall and 250 kg

The moa: giant dinornithiform birds, up to 3.6 metres tall and 250 kg. Entirely wingless. All that remained of their wings was a tiny little digit. They lived in New Zealand. They were wiped out completely in only 100 to 200 years by the tribes who settled the islands

NB! · Pop Culture · Humour

Stalin Makes Entries in the Death Note under the Supervision of the Shinigami Demon

NB! · Observations · Humour

Well, I don't know, I wouldn't be overjoyed in Roosevelt's place

NB! · Archive · Observations

When you read parish registers, the most agreeable thing is to find that in a given month there were no deaths

NB! · Geography · Maps · Humour

The Route of Hannibal's Army during the Italian Campaign in 218 BC

The route of Hannibal's army during the Italian campaign in 218 BC. Just imagine: the elephants, too, made the whole journey

Black-and-white photograph of two mummers in masks, one with a false beard, in baggy clothes standing on grass before hills.

NB! · Archive · Observations · Ethnography

Mummers in masks in photographs taken in Scotland in 1932

Mummers used to be far more frightening. After all, between the modern person and the person of the early last century (these photographs were taken in Scotland in 1932) there lies a vast, unbridgeable chasm

NB! · Art · People

Sisters, by the Finnish-Swedish artist Elin Kleopatra Danielson-Gambogi, 1891

NB! · Art · Museums · New York

Aphrodite, 1st-2nd century AD

Aphrodite, 1st-2nd century AD. Roman sculpture. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Bivouac, John Singer Sargent, 1911