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How to Recognise a Lady Blogger Without Her Instamask?

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The Expression to Wear When World Leaders Fail to Hear "the Cry of the Earth and the Cry of the Peoples" at a Global Climate Conference

NB! · Art · Monarchies · Observations · Humour

A proud skeleton on a mountain of skulls: not a bad design for a monument to Napoleon, and one that remains apt for many a ruler even in our own day

NB! · Faith · Society · Rome

After meeting Pope Francis, Biden said the pontiff had called him a good Catholic and acknowledged his right to Holy Communion

NB! · Archive · Monarchies · Observations · Humour

Looking at this 1909 photograph of Sir Winston Churchill, then a major and a Member of Parliament, with Kaiser Wilhelm II, I think not of history and politics but of how splendid it would be to bring back capes like Wilhelm's into men's fashion

Banner with cartoon figures: visitors in old-fashioned and modern clothes head to the museum, people in swimwear head to the bank of the Oka.

NB! · Museums · Observations · Humour

Illustrated notice about the dress code at the Polenovo Museum-Reserve

It is good when a museum employs people with a sense of humour. A notice on the grounds of the Polenovo Museum-Reserve

Mummy of a woman with long dark hair and a pale fur hat lying on an ochre woven mat.

NB! · Archaeology · The East · Observations · Ethnography

Four-Thousand-Year-Old Mummy of a Woman from the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang

A beautifully preserved four-thousand-year-old mummy of a woman from the Tarim Basin in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. What lovely hair and headdress, even after all these years

Painting detail: a coffin under a black and white pall hangs from rigging beside a ship, while clergy, officers and rowers stand in boats below, a flag at left.

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Draped coffin hoisted from a sailing ship's side, detail of a painting

NB! · Art · Monarchies · Paris · People

Arrival of Napoleon's coffin aboard the ship La Belle Poule (The Pretty Hen), 15 December 1840

Arrival of Napoleon's coffin aboard the ship La Belle Poule (The Pretty Hen), 15 December 1840. Eugène Isabey

Page of a Dutch fashion magazine with engravings of black mourning dresses, hats, brooches, a fan and jewellery with crosses.

NB! · Archive · Mores · Pop Culture · Humour

Mourning dress and accessories in the Dutch fashion magazine De Gracieuse, April 1880

A selection of mourning dress and accessories in a Dutch fashion magazine, April 1880. After all, a widow must be not only merry but fashionable too

NB! · Architecture

The Russian Parthenon

Blurred photo of a framed portrait on a light wall: a bearded man in a red cap and a dark uniform with epaulettes and gold cords.

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