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Learning Latin with Winnie-the-Pooh

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All Day Every Day

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I don't know whether such records are kept, but I may well have the longest sofa in the world here: just in case one fancies stretching out one's ooooverlong legs of an evening

A man in a dark cloak with slicked-back hair points at the viewer, with fangs visible in his mouth.

NB! · Cinema · People

Seven years since the death of Christopher Lee, who played Dracula and Saruman

If villainous charisma exists, its embodiment is Christopher Lee. Dracula and Saruman in one person. The actor who played the great antagonists of world cinema would have celebrated his centenary this year, but alas, today marks seven years since his death

An elderly man in glasses sits in a room among shelves and heaps of books and papers.

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Jean Piaget's ideas of order in the workplace and intellectual labour

Jean Piaget and I have the same ideas about order in the workplace. At any rate, I would rather not hear remarks from people who understand nothing about intellectual labour

NB! · Books · Moscow · Pop Culture

At Pushkinskaya Metro Station, a Pixelated Pushkin Invites Passengers to Read His Books in the Metro's Electronic Library

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Isaac Newton Breaks Russian Law by Investigating the Dispersion of Light

Elderly Henri Matisse in glasses sits in bed working with coloured paper, with a row of drawn faces on the wall above him.

NB! · Archive · Art · People

Henri Matisse, paralysed in 1950, kept working from his bed until his death

Henri Matisse at work in bed. In 1950 the artist was paralysed and could no longer walk, but he did not cease to create until his death

Two smiling women sit side by side in the front row, one in a pale blue suit and black gloves, the other in dark sunglasses and a floral dress.

NB! · London · Monarchies · Pop Culture · Society Pages · Humour

Elizabeth II and Anna Wintour meet at London Fashion Week in 2018

Elizabeth II and Anna Wintour at London Fashion Week, 2018. Two queens, simply meeting

NB! · Art · Observations

Do I Like Contemporary Art?

NB! · Art · Society · Paris · Humour

The bottom of the allegory of Abundance from the sculptural group Triumph of the Republic (1879–99) by the Louvre curator Jules Dalou is plastered with leaflets of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the alliance of France's left-wing forces, who has thus expre

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