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A Selfie Taken by Nicholas II
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François Truffaut's 1966 book on Hitchcock, made up of interviews with the director, became the model of its genre and has been reissued more than once, each time with a most striking cover
NB! · Archaeology · Humour
Meeting Anubis on the Underground Is a Great Stroke of Luck
NB! · In the Press · London · Monarchies · Humour
In 1992 the Daily Mail published police-made photofits of how Princes William and Harry might look in their early thirties
In 1992 the Daily Mail published police-made photofits of how Princes William and Harry might look in their early thirties. William, for some reason, is the spitting image of Boris Johnson, while Harry is a bleached Ellen DeGeneres
NB! · Archaeology · Art · Museums · Humour
In the Secret Cabinet of the Naples Museum there is a depiction of a Pompeian fresco in which a satyr creeps up on a sleeping nymph, discovers that it is a hermaphrodite, and promptly tries to flee in horror, while the two-sexed object of his desire tries
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My compliments to the person who came up with this
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Rollo or Robert I, First Duke of Normandy, Viking by Descent, Great-Great-Great-Grandfather of William the Conqueror
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I dream of a kitchen with a view from the window, like the one in this 2017 painting by Jennifer Diehl
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Perhaps everyone has seen this already, but the crib sheets of a Spanish student at the University of Málaga, published by his lecturer, really do look like a work of art
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View of Dresden by Full Moon
View of Dresden by full moon. The Norwegian painter Johan Christian Clausen Dahl, 1839
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Van Gogh and Rembrandt as a subject for reflection on painting
Van Gogh and Rembrandt. Food for thought