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Gaspard Drouville observes that Persian women, though they wear the chador, and even when covered from head to foot, possess a peculiar art of recognising one another from a great distance, whereas their husbands often walk right beside them and cannot te
NB! · Books · Nature
The Enraged Elephant from an Old Book
NB! · Observations · Society · Paris
I wonder whether, forty years from now, people will post photographs of Macron in the same spirit in which we post snapshots of Chirac?
NB! · Archive · Paris · Pop Culture
Dalida and Alain Delon outside the singer's house in Montmartre, 1972
NB! · Books · Moscow · Humour
Quotations from Great Men
Quotations from Great Men. The Lenin Library
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Four young men by a park bench in front of flower beds
NB! · Art · Observations · Nature · Humour
Pyotr Konchalovsky's painting is called "Begonias", but actually there is a gloxinia standing beside the begonias, and behind them, it seems, some alocasias
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Construction work on a city riverbank beneath cumulus clouds
NB! · Architecture · Moscow · Observations
I continue to keep watch over my favourite building site in Moscow, the pedestrian bridge on Bolotnaya Embankment
I continue to keep watch over my favourite building site in Moscow, the pedestrian bridge on Bolotnaya Embankment. The bridge is taking on convincing outlines, and soon we shall be testing the new promenade route
NB! · Society · People
President of Italy Sergio Mattarella Turns 85
The President of Italy, Sergio Mattarella, is 85 years old. He has held the post since 2015. In Italy the president is elected by secret ballot, at a joint session of both chambers of parliament and special delegates from the regions, for a term of seven years
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