Day archive for February 20th, 2004

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who cares if languages die out?

Posted: February 20th 2004 18:15.

From Sri Lanka’s Daily News:
In a message to the first celebration [of International Mother Language Day in 2000] United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said “the Day raises awareness among all peoples regarding the value of languages.” He called for increased efforts to conserve languages as a shared heritage of humanity.
A brief examination of various PR [...]


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Carod in Perpignan: photo exclusive

Posted: February 20th 2004 11:24. Last modified: December 8th 2004 19:43

Someone just mailed me this disgraceful image:

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Shagging with wolves

Posted: February 20th 2004 09:02.

Bad news for Basque neo-Nazi thugs hoping to meet in remote places with Catalan wuzzocks: you may get eaten by a wolf. Examination of dead sheep and of mounds of poo – yep, that’s the romance of life as a forestry agent – suggests that there’s a young Italian male specimen loose in the Cadí-Moixeró [...]

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sagrada família finished!

Posted: February 20th 2004 08:36.

Sez Christina Foerch in Lebanon’s Daily Star:
Gaudi became obsessed with the church and concentrated all his energy on it. In 1926, he was hit by a car and died three days later at the age of 74. However, construction continued on the church and it was finally completed in 1987.
Christina must mean “finished” in the [...]


Categories: God, the angels and the orders of the faithful, Splog

getting better most of the time

Posted: February 20th 2004 08:24.

Cockroach-eye view of the choir up to the usual nonsense in a garage in Sants:

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Categories: Music, Splog

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  • March 21 1848 

    En Barcelona como en otras partes comienza hoy la primavera, que en honor de la verdad no suele ser aqui la estacion mas hermosa del año. Cierto que ya los árboles comienzan á echar hoja, y que la linda y olorosa violeta alfombra los jardines y ribazos, y que le hacen cortejo otras flores; per...

Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

  • 21 de març de 1918 En aquest país tenim un costum molt curiós. Quan ens trobem, al carrer, dues persones, cara a cara, no tenim, a penes, res a dir-nos. Però, una vegada acomiadats i fets set o vuit passos, se’ns ocorren tot d’una una sèrie de coses urgents a dir a la persona que hem deixat fa un moment. [...]
  • 21 de març de 1919 Inici de la primavera. Biblioteca. Tot traduint Renard penso que és més important dominar un ofici qualsevol que posseir una curiositat dilatada, vastíssima. La curiositat es pot improvisar; un ofici, no. La curiositat és superficialment agradable, però deixa una certa buidor amarga per dintre. Un ofici és monòton i pesat, però té moments d’una voluptuositat [...]

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