Living room in a wooden house: a corner sofa and armchair in floral covers with red cushions, a dining table with chairs, a round crocheted rug and a chandelier with red shades.

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Living room interior of a log house with a floral-upholstered sofa

NB! · Cinema · Mores · Humour

An Entertaining History of Culinary Masterpieces

An entertaining history of culinary masterpieces. The tale of the Kyiv Cake, worthy of Leonid Kanevsky

NB! · Architecture · Observations · Humour

A fine example of repair work by an Italian contractor in a dining hall of the late Renaissance, not far from the castle at Racconigi

Concrete frame and steel beams of a building under construction, part of the facade covered by green netting, with a blue fence in the foreground.

NB! · Architecture · Moscow · Museums · Observations

Construction of the New Tretyakov Gallery Building as Seen by the Author

The new Tretyakov Gallery building. I trust history will not remember it

NB! · Faith · Moscow · Observations

A Very Sad Piece of Visual Evidence from the Exhibition at the Sretensky Monastery

Colour geological map of France with shaded relief, French lettering and a legend in the lower left corner.

NB! · Geography · Maps · Observations

The geological map of France and how it differs from political maps

Firstly, it is very beautiful. A geological map of France. And secondly, political maps are simply dull

Interior corner with green walls painted with arabesques, putti and griffins. A decorated panel between slim columns, a figure in red at right, a pink door at left.

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Room with Pompeian-style wall paintings: green walls, columns and arabesques

NB! · Architecture · Monarchies · Museums

Interiors of Amalienborg, the Palace of the Danish Royal Family in Copenhagen

NB! · Observations · Nature · Humour

Good morning, and may your day be as joyful as this eighteenth-century sea lion

NB! · Faith · Art · Humour

The Sculptures of Santa Maria della Vita, When Someone Coughed in the Next Carriage of the Metro

NB! · Monarchies · Pop Culture · Humour

I am hinting at nothing, but in the coronation photograph of George VI with his wife and daughters, which announced his monarchical course of unity and devotion to family values, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret wore crowns from Burger King

NB! · Geography · Maps · Observations · Society · Humour

Germany and Russia

Germany and Russia. And Poland between them, naturally; how could it be otherwise. One date I have prudently blurred out, simply because I am not sure whether, where we are, mentioning it nowadays merely lands one in prison or has already progressed to the firing squad.