NB! · London · Museums · Science · Mores

Glass moulds for rubber or latex condoms of various sizes, 1900s-1920s, Science Museum (London)

NB! · Art · New York · Society Pages · Humour

And now, the pride bulletin

And now, the pride bulletin. Sergei Gordeev, the owner of PIK, has lost a million dollars to the art historian Ilyin, having maintained that he was the richest man at the Guggenheim Foundation dinner.

NB! · Observations · Humour

What headphones are those, might you tell me?

NB! · Museums · Observations · Humour

I feel like the cat of the National Archaeological Museum in Naples and cannot help it

Black-and-white photo of a cathedral with a stone wall, tall piers and an archangel sculpture by the steps; on the right, the cathedral's floor plan.

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Coventry. St Michael's Cathedral, 1962, architect B. Spence: view and plan

Large framed painting: a young woman in a light dress holding red flowers shakes hands with a man in a grey tunic, surrounded by applauding people, with microphones and flowers on the table.

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Museum painting: a woman with a bouquet shakes hands with a man at a meeting

A large painting in a museum hall: uniformed military men around a table with a red cloth in a room with columns and chandeliers.

NB! · Moscow · Museums · Observations

Visitors to the New Tretyakov Gallery are invited to the fourth floor

How can one not love the New Tretyakov Gallery? Do look in on the 4th floor

A man in a grey T-shirt leans toward the ground beside a sarcophagus painted with hieroglyphs and figures, surrounded by rubble and stones.

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Man examining a painted ancient Egyptian sarcophagus at an excavation site

NB! · Aristocracy · Cinema · Monarchies · Mores · People · Humour

And yes, the ancestor of Kit Harington, who played Jon Snow in "Game of Thrones", a poet and courtier of the sixteenth century, Sir John Harington, invented the first flushing lavatory for the aged Queen Elizabeth I

NB! · Observations · Education

do not dare forget your teachers, they worry about us and remember

Magazine page with text on 1920s fashion above a photo of a woman in a tiara and pink gloves looking upward, beside a crystal decanter.

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Woman in a tiara and long gloves: magazine page on 1920s fashion

NB! · Art · Monarchies · Observations · People · Humour

Marie Antoinette as a Hyena

Marie Antoinette as a hyena. The hairstyle is odd, of course