NB! · Science · Palaeontology · Nature

A Skull Found by a Fisherman in an Irish Lough Lay Underwater for More Than Ten Thousand Years and Belongs to the Vanished Giant Deer

NB! · Faith · Museums · Mores · Paris

The Very Reliquary with the Teeth of Abelard and Heloise, Once Owned by Alexandre Lenoir

NB! · Faith · Heritage

The Foot of Saint Catherine of Siena, Patron Saint of Italy, in the Altar of the Right Aisle of the Basilica of Santi Giovanni e Paolo, One of the Largest Churches in Venice

Skeletons of deer and horned hoofed animals in a hall with tall arched windows, with two large-horned skulls in the foreground.

NB! · Museums · Palaeontology · Paris · Humour

The Parade of Skeletons in the Paris Palaeontology Laboratory Exhibition

The exhibition of the Paris palaeontology laboratory is called a parade of skeletons, because all the skeletons face the same way. And yes, these beasts look as though they have only just reached retirement age in Russia

A hand touches the flipper bones of a whale skeleton displayed in a museum hall, with other skeletons visible behind.

NB! · Observations · Nature · Humour

Blue whale flipper in a museum display and its resemblance to a human hand

The flipper of a blue whale. Isn't it practically a hand?

NB! · Museums · Palaeontology · Paris · Nature

The Giant Deer, or Irish Elk

The giant deer, or Irish elk. It became extinct about 20,000 years ago. The antlers of the animal spanned as much as 5 metres. This skeleton is kept in the Palaeontological Museum in Paris

NB! · Faith · The East · Mores · Ethnography

The mystical movement of the sheep-eaters in early modern India prescribed eating raw meat straight from the carcass, tearing off pieces with the teeth and using no auxiliary implements, and moreover in strict order

Old bond of 1822 with Russian text, a double-headed eagle at the top, two orange stamps and the inscriptions “Roubles 960” and “£148 Sterling”.

NB! · Archive · Society

Five per cent bond for 960 roubles of 1822 issued to Nathan Rothschild

A 5% bond for 960 roubles dated 1 March 1822, issued to Nathan Rothschild, whose signature appears in the upper right corner of the document. In all, bonds of this kind were issued to the Rothschilds to the value of £3.5 million sterling

NB! · Art · Society

The State Porcelain Factory Named After the Newspaper Pravda! 1937, the "Constitution" Vase

The State Porcelain Factory Named After the Newspaper Pravda! 1937, the "Constitution" vase. Peasant women with loaves and peasant men with pipes beneath golden sheaves of wheat. So this is what you look like, Stalin's constitution.

NB! · Observations · Humour

Beauties Come in All Kinds

In a museum display case stand porcelain chess figures and painted propaganda plates with a red star and a Red Army soldier.

NB! · Art · Museums · Society · Humour

Porcelain revolutionary chess set of 1933 with red and white pieces

Porcelain revolutionary chess set, 1933. Reds against Whites. The Red pawns are peasants; the White pawns are shackled by the bourgeoisie. As for the Red king and queen, they are, of course, the worker and the collective-farm woman

NB! · Archive · Monarchies · Moscow · Mores

Emperor Alexander Pavlovich, having accepted the hospitality of P.A. and P.Yu. Kologrivov

Emperor Alexander Pavlovich, having accepted the hospitality of P.A. and P.Yu. Kologrivov, deigned in their house to take tea from this cup, on the 21st day of January 1818, in Moscow