Day archive for November 24th, 2004

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Wikipedia: Arabic vs Klingon

Posted: November 24th 2004 16:53. Last modified: January 4th 2007 14:40

“the number of interested people in having an Open Content Arabic Encyclopedia doesn’t reflect the number of Arabic people over the Internet”


Categories: Languages, Splog

Chickpoint

Posted: November 24th 2004 10:20.

I always liked the bit in Qathafi’s Green Book where it says, “It is an undisputed fact that both man and woman are human beings.” This photo over at Ammar Ibrahim’s suggests that the latter may be only partially acknowledged in Syria – or it may just be their spelling. “Hier is the factory” is [...]


Categories: Splog

Exclusive Tunisian tornado pics

Posted: November 24th 2004 01:19. Last modified: November 24th 2004 10:22

Karim’s got photos, more photos, even more photos and video of the Tunisian tornado and storms 10 days ago. I challenge you to find that on Google News.


Categories: Splog

Welcome to new, pronounceable kalebeul

Posted: November 24th 2004 00:40. Last modified: November 24th 2004 17:07

The phonetic rebranding of Kaleboel.

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    Barcelona’s five small hospitals meet in the Colom Hospital [part of the current Santa Creu building], called after its founder [Guillem de Colom, 1219], and take the name of the Holy Cross.
    Los cinco hospitales pequeños que habia en Barcelona se reunen al...

Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

  • 15 de març de 1919 El mecanisme de la penya. La primera persona que sol arribar a la tertĂşlia, havent dinat, Ă©s Enric JardĂ­. Arriba caminant pausadament, portant sota el braç dos diaris: «L’Action Française» i «L’Humanité». És un home que segueix amb una gran lucidesa i un agut esperit dialèctic els moviments extrems de les idees –únics que en [...]

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