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Observations · Society · Humour

A German pensioner is to stand trial for commenting on Chancellor Merz's visit to his town with the words: "Pinocchio arrives in Heilbronn 🤥"

Section 188 of the German Criminal Code governs liability for public insult, slander or defamation of persons holding positions in political life, including local politicians. The provision applies where the statement is made publicly, relates to the person's political role and is capable of substantially impeding his public

Observations · Heritage · Society · Paris

State Negrophobia?

State negrophobia? Or perhaps chronicles of the Great Replacement? In Paris, the statue of Colbert in front of the National Assembly has been defaced. But the vandals will face no consequences. This is not the first act of vandalism against the monument to the finance minister of Louis XIV, who

NB! · Moscow · Observations · Society

It is frightening to think that people queued for hours in all weathers to look at Lenin's body in its glass coffin

NB! · Society · Humour

Trump to Make Public the Files Relating to Extraterrestrials

Art · Heritage · Society · Rome

Bernini's celebrated Roman sculpture "The Elephant and Obelisk" has been damaged again

Bernini's celebrated Roman sculpture "The Elephant and Obelisk" has been damaged again. The marble elephant, created in 1667 to a design by Bernini and executed by his pupil Ercole Ferrata, stands in the Piazza della Minerva beside the Pantheon. The elephant, bearing an ancient Egyptian obelisk

Books · Observations · Science · Society · Pop Culture

As early as 1903, the German philosopher and sociologist Georg Simmel described the effect of scrolling through a social-media feed:

This results in the nerves reacting with maximum intensity for so long a time that they finally cease to react at all. [ ... ] Thus there arises an incapacity to react to new sensations with the appropriate energy

Books · Mores · New York · Society

The 1980 Olympic Games at Lake Placid were accompanied by a serious scandal, one of the loudest in the history of the Winter Games, over the conditions in which the American side housed the athletes

The 1980 Olympic Games at Lake Placid were accompanied by a serious scandal, one of the loudest in the history of the Winter Games, over the conditions in which the American side housed the athletes. The Olympic Village was set up on the grounds of a prison. Some American sources

Faith · Monarchies · Observations · Society · Humour

She who lives to eat and is mad for sweetmeats, whose only pleasure is her belly and her throat, who stuffs her cheeks and her paunch, a gluttonous queen, grows fat herself and makes her husband's purse lean

The main thing is not to become like the Queen of England of 1625 to 1649, Henrietta Maria of France, as she is portrayed in satirical pamphlets. Deeply unpopular, she became the heroine of such insulting sketches; she was accused of extravagance, foreign influence and sympathy for the Catholic powers.

Faith · Observations · Heritage · Society

Bulgaria Puts Images of Orthodox Saints on the Obverses of Its National Euro Coins

The 2-euro coin depicts Saint Paisius of Hilendar, who lived in the 18th century, a key figure of the Bulgarian National Revival and the author of the Slavonic-Bulgarian History of the Bulgarian peoples and tsars. The 1-euro coin shows Saint John of Rila, who lived in the

Moscow · Observations · Society

In the Moscow metro, the announcement "Dear passengers, please give up your seats to the disabled, the elderly, passengers with children and pregnant women" has been replaced with "Be courteous, give up your seats to those for whom standing is harder"

In the Moscow metro, the announcement "Dear passengers, please give up your seats to the disabled, the elderly, passengers with children and pregnant women" has been replaced with "Be courteous, give up your seats to those for whom standing is harder". I am not sure whether

Society · Saint Petersburg

Head of the Hamburg CDU Group Proposes Ending the City's Twinning with Saint Petersburg, in Force Since 1957

According to the politician, Russia is not a partner of Germany, and Saint Petersburg is not a partner city of Hamburg. Instead, the CDU proposes establishing a full twinning of Hamburg with Kyiv. The partnership between Hamburg and Leningrad began in 1957, at the height of the Cold War, and

Archive · Science · Education · Society

In the old days, when I lectured, a professor's salary of 3000 roubles was so ample that I could even keep a footman – I took on Alyosha, you know

In the old days, when I lectured, a professor's salary of 3000 roubles was so ample that I could even keep a footman – I took on Alyosha, you know. But does it provide so well now? If I were a minister and were asked to name what a