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In chess the black and white pieces are sworn enemies, but those who command them are usually the best of friends

A framed drawing of a black steam locomotive with red wheels hangs on a dark blue wall, with the driver visible in the cab.

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Alexander Deyneka’s work “Full Speed” depicting a steam locomotive

Full Speed Ahead. Alexander Deineka

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Posters for the 1972 film “Roma”, or “Fellini’s Roma”

Two black-framed works on a white wall show glass decanters in watercolour on yellowish paper. Wall labels sit beside them; a visitor with a phone is reflected in the glass.

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Two drawings of a decanter in the Purist style, mid-1920s, on display

NB! · Aristocracy · Architecture · Art · Museums · New York

Magnificent woodwork in the studiolo from the Ducal Palace at Gubbio, created for Duke Federico da Montefeltro around 1480

Magnificent woodwork in the studiolo from the Ducal Palace at Gubbio, created for Duke Federico da Montefeltro around 1480. In the nineteenth century the studiolo was bought by a German art dealer and taken to Venice. In 1939 it was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum

NB! · Archive · Faith · Geography · Maps

The Creation of Woman and the Fall of Man, from the atlas of the French geographer and publisher Claude de Mornas, 1762

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Stalin in 1918

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And the captain of the Titanic says: “Where was Gondor when we needed help?”

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It feels as though Joffrey Baratheon resembles Caligula even more than Caligula himself

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Even Frodo Has His Chinese Counterpart

Map fragment of Rome showing the Bocca della Verità, the Forum Boarium and the Cloaca Maxima beside the river.

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In Rome the Bocca della Verità and the Cloaca Maxima lie close to the Forum Boarium

From the Mouth of Truth to the Cloaca Maxima is a stone's throw. Eternal, all the same, this city of Rome

NB! · Observations · Humour