Day archive for June 18th, 2007

Is your bitch laughing behind your back?

Posted: June 18th 2007 15:10.

This video shows her when she knows she’s being watched:

Move your monitor back and lie on your desk with your face touching the screen and your feet left to view the next fragment. It shows her still getting used to the Bulgarian military hip camera used in its capture:

Nothing much there, but check this:

“Ah! behaviourism!” [...]

José Tomás vs Manolete

Posted: June 18th 2007 14:31. Last modified: June 18th 2007 15:13

I’m different, says the former:

The death of the latter:
How camp! Did I mention that lunch in Bar Manolete in Mogón is excellent?

How the pizza got to Italy

Posted: June 18th 2007 14:00. Last modified: June 18th 2007 14:25

Genetic data doesn’t actually suggest that the Turks brought it with them and then rebranded themselves as Etruscans in order to sell into European markets.

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Barcelona

  • July 31 1568 Recíbese por un anónimo la noticia de que el primogénito de Felipe II estaba sin esperanzas de vida.
  • July 31 1808 On the 31st of July the Impérieuse silenced, and Lord Cochrane landed with his marines, under Lieutenant James Rivers Hore of that corps, and took possession of the castle of Mongal; an important post completely commanding a pass in the road from Barcelona to Gerona, then besieged by the French,...
  • July 31 1848 En la iglesia parroquial de Ntra. Sra. de Belen que fue de los PP. de la Compañía de Jesus, se celebra con toda solemnidad, la fiesta de san Ignacio de Loyola. Las religiosas de la Enseñanza de la misma órden tributan tambien á este fundador solemnes cultos.
  • July 31 1909 APOLOGY FOR BARCELONA.; Interested In Industry, the People Object to Fighting.
    HENRY DALMASES. July 31, 1909, Saturday I notice in your dispatches of to-day in regard to the Spanish situation that the disturbances in Barcelona and other Spanish Eastern points are classed as ma...
  • July 31 1909 120 REBELS SHOT AT BARCELONA; Authoritative Personage Says 10 Courts-Martial Sat Two Days to Try Them. MANY ARRESTS IN MADRID Authorities Guarding Against Strike To-Morrow — Rebels Still Hold Much of Barcelona, Reports Say. SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain, by Way of the French Frontier, July 31...
  • July 31 1909 AMERICANS IN BARCELONA.; Feared Two Women Cousins of Mrs. Lemoine, the Actress, Are Victims.
  • July 31 1926 Occasionally the old fashioned iron extinguisher of censorship clapped upon Spain by Dictator Premier Primo de Rivera springs a tiny leak, spurts a dark smoke puff of news. Last week the official version of what occurred when the Dictator visited Barcelona was that he “received an enthusias...

Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

    Nothing doing.

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