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Perhaps the history of men's struggle against women's emancipation is more interesting than the account of emancipation itself
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own. Dear women! Never give up! Happy holiday!
Art · Observations
My friends at the architecture studio SKNYPL have devised and built a rather splendid modular shelving unit, CABINET+, which assembles like a construction set into a large storage section, yet on its own transforms into a cupboard, a writing desk and two…
My friends at the architecture studio SKNYPL have devised and built a rather splendid modular shelving unit, CABINET+, which assembles like a construction set into a large storage section, yet on its own transforms into a cupboard, a writing desk and two stool-cum-cabinets. This year it is being
Cinema · Books · Observations
Audiobooks “Vnutri ubiytsy” and “Slovo patsana” lead Bookmate’s winter statistics
Acquainted myself with Bookmate's statistics for the winter. Curiously, the chief audiobooks of Yandex Plus's book service turned out to be «Inside the Killer» and «The Word of the Boy». Both books have been made into popular television series. And if the novel «Inside the Killer»
NB! · Art · Observations · Humour
The mood of not going to school tomorrow, as I look at Edward Hopper's 1935 painting "House at Dusk"
NB! · Faith · Observations · People
Pope Francis is unwell
Pope Francis is unwell. Today he asked an aide to read his address in his stead. The Vatican reports that after last week's audience the Pope went to hospital for diagnostic tests. And what is there to test, at 87, after all?
Architecture · Faith · Observations · Society · Paris
On the official poster for the 2024 Paris Olympics, the Christian cross has been removed from the spire of Les Invalides
What scoundrels they are, they are no longer ashamed of anything
NB! · Art · London · Observations · Humour
The habit of the city dweller: spotting signs of atmospheric pollution even in a seventeenth-century rural landscape with a view of the English palace of Whitehall
The habit of the city dweller: spotting signs of atmospheric pollution even in a seventeenth-century rural landscape with a view of the English palace of Whitehall. Dutch master Hendrik Danckerts
NB! · Art · Cinema · Books · Observations
The Death of Smaug, a Drawing by Tolkien Himself
The death of Smaug, a drawing by Tolkien himself. Incidentally, the film turned out rather similar.
Cinema · Observations · Humour
Can it be a coincidence that two of your favourite films were made by the same man?
I have only just learnt that the Australian director George Miller, who turned 79 yesterday, made both "Mad Max" and "Babe".
Archive · Books · Observations · Society
So, Professor Thomas Salmon, in his "Modern History, or the Present State of All Nations" of 1735, reports that once Russia has mastered the subtleties of navigation and the other sciences, nothing can prevent her from becoming the foremost commercial pow
Russia produces goods without which other nations, and maritime powers in particular, would find it very hard to subsist. From Russia come pitch, tar, hemp, planks and round timber. Thanks to the canals between the Volga and the Baltic Sea, Russia is able to supply grain at low prices. The
NB! · Art · Moscow · Observations · Society Pages
Egor Koshelev's exhibition "Second Half" has opened at the Vladey space at 14 Neglinnaya
Egor Koshelev's exhibition "Second Half" has opened at the Vladey space at 14 Neglinnaya. A very interesting artist