NB! · Monarchies · Humour

When you find out that your coronation is not until 6 May next year

A short-haired woman in a pink gown with a sheer wrap stands in a light-colored hall. Large bouquets of white flowers, a wall sconce and a dark staircase are behind her.

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Woman in a pink evening gown in a columned hall with a staircase

NB! · Cinema · People

Angela Lansbury, Legendary Actress of Hollywood's Golden Age, Has Died

Angela Lansbury, the legendary actress of Hollywood's Golden Age, has died. Her career on stage, television and film lasted eight decades. She missed her 97th birthday by only a couple of days.

NB! · Art · Books · Museums

Portrait of the Sisters Anne, Emily and Charlotte Brontë, Painted by Their Brother Branwell

NB! · Books · Observations

It would indeed be splendid if people stopped confusing a love of reading with a love of acquiring books

NB! · Art · Books

King Lear and Cordelia, Ford Madox Brown, 1854

NB! · Geography · Nature · Ethnography

A dog of one of the most ancient breeds, the Kazakh sighthound, the tazy, basks on a slope of the Turgen Gorge at an altitude of 2,750 metres

NB! · Art

Oskar Zwintscher, Grief, 1898

Black-and-white photo: a man in a suit cuts a seated woman's hair while three women in tunics stand in line beside him, one holding a peaked cap.

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Haircut in a barbershop: three women in military-style tunics waiting their turn

NB! · Cinema · Pop Culture · Humour

Cruella de Swine

NB! · Faith · Art · Rome

The Separation of Light from Darkness

The Separation of Light from Darkness. Fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, 1508-1512, Michelangelo Buonarroti

An old olive tree with a thick trunk whose bark shows the outline of a pensive face, on a grassy hill under a cloudy sky.

NB! · Observations · Nature

A 1,500-year-old olive tree in Apulia, known as the Thinking Tree

The celebrated 1,500-year-old olive tree in Apulia is known simply as the Thinking Tree. One glance at that imposing, pensive profile is enough to see why