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Exhibition in Boston marking the release of the film “Downton Abbey” closes
The bombshell exhibition marking the release of the Downton Abbey feature film closes tomorrow. All that remains is to bite one's elbows for having failed to get there. But what is one to do? The exhibition was in Boston, after all! 😣
NB! · Aristocracy · Observations · Humour
My thoughts when yet another barely acquainted person begins to tell me about his "noble roots"
Archaeology · Museums · Observations · Humour
Bronze finial of a Roman standard with an eagle in the Zagreb Archaeological Museum
Things like this take me back to the days of Asterix and Obelix, that is, to when they were shown on Saturdays at 9 a.m. Part of a Roman standard: a bronze finial in the form of an eagle resembling a plump goose, perched astride a baton, with a
Archaeology · Observations · Mores · Ethnography
Viking double burials and the hypothesis of the woman’s sacrificial role
Remember the news about the skeletons holding hands that turned out to be the remains of two men? When it comes to Viking paired burials, such as those in these illustrations, there is a hypothesis far removed from the silly formula of "they lived happily ever after and died
Archaeology · Faith · Observations · Palaeontology
A sanctuary with mammoth bones and theories about the spiritual world of Palaeolithic people
Though statements about the spiritual world of Palaeolithic people are pure fantasy, of course, given the complete absence of material. For the most part I take such theories as fantasy, but a SANCTUARY with mammoth bones is really something and fits my subject, so I could not help sharing it.
NB! · Observations · Nature · Humour
My cat demands attention and a pouch of food at 7 a.m.
Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations · People · Saint Petersburg
Sergey Shchukin's Collection of French Painting in the Hermitage and the Pushkin Museum
Henri Rousseau, Matisse, Picasso: Sergey Ivanovich Shchukin devoted 20 years of his life to acquiring paintings from the finest French artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The collection of Impressionists, Post-Impressionists, Cubists and Fauves cost the merchant 1 million francs; today its value is estimated at
Aristocracy · Art · Observations · Mores
Do you know what is curious?
Do you know what is curious? The daughters of Sergei Ivanovich Shchukin by different women, Ekaterina and Irina, were both married to Counts Keller. The elder married the bibliophile Mikhail Pavlovich, and the younger his nephew, and from that marriage was born André-Marc Delocque-Fourcaud, one of the organisers
Observations · Science · Education · Humour
A wave to all my lecturers at the Higher School who made us cram Excel
A wave to all my lecturers at the Higher School who made us cram Excel. Some 20% of the genetic studies published in leading scientific journals contain errors caused by the autoformatting settings in Microsoft Excel. You have surely run into it yourselves, when the programme swaps the data you
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But There Is Good News, Too
NB! · Art · Observations · Humour
There Are Only Two Kinds of Captive
There are only two kinds of captive. The prisoner taken in battle (suffering in some cave) and the bound captive with bleeding wounds (relieving himself without the aid of his hands, gazing proudly). Which of the two is our favourite, I think, needs no explaining