NB! · Science · Education

Stefan Emunds, a photograph from a textbook on optical illusion

NB! · Observations

When the Line Would Not Connect

NB! · Archive · Architecture · Heritage

The Parthenon, Athens, 1907

NB! · Archive · London · Monarchies · People

Elizabeth II and White Horses in 1944, 2016 and 2022

Black-and-white photograph of a smiling woman in a pale hat and suit walking on grass beside a boy in jacket and shorts; girls and two women stand at left, a castle behind.

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Woman in a tweed suit walks across a lawn past children, a castle behind

NB! · Observations

How wonderful that she exists

NB! · London · Monarchies · People

Elizabeth II Turns 96 Today

Elizabeth II turns 96 today. Many happy returns, and long may she reign!

Painting of a half-naked red-haired woman raising a mirror as she climbs from a well, while two men in dark and patterned clothes hold her by her garment.

NB! · Art · Museums · Society · Paris

Édouard Debat-Ponsan's painting of Truth, shown at the 1898 Salon in support of Dreyfus

“Truth Coming Out of Her Well”, where a soldier and a prelate would like to hide her. Édouard Debat-Ponsan. The painting was shown at the Salon of 1898, and the artist offered the canvas to Émile Zola in support of Captain Dreyfus

NB! · Humour

But Tinkoff doesn't even know how the word "nepotism" is spelled

Black-and-white photo: a large gallery-ringed dome rises above a damaged building with a caved-in roof, arched openings and heaps of rubble in the foreground.

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Ruined church of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan with a collapsed roof

NB! · Books · Observations · Humour

Colour a Photograph of Dostoevsky Clumsily Enough with Felt-Tips and You Will Get Dobrolyubov

Black-and-white photo: in a tall window framed by columns and a shell-topped pediment stands a marble sculpture of two embracing figures. A balustrade runs along the bottom.

NB! · Art · Rome

Rome: sculpted pair in a window, photograph by Elliott Erwitt, 1996

Rome. Elliott Erwitt, 1996