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Photos and video of snowstorm in Park GĂĽell

Posted: March 8th 2010 20:00. Last modified: March 8th 2010 20:08

Includes video of snow felling a pine tree and a photo of a municipal bus which almost skated its way down-town.

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Categories: Heathen gods, Les bourgeois, The winds, Thunder, Trees

Cost-cutting in the ancient world

Posted: November 20th 2009 15:15. Last modified: November 20th 2009 15:24

Hera can no longer afford the dragon and has installed security cameras to stop the Hesperides stealing her golden apples. (Pomegranates, actually, which I believe some people also view as possible candidates. On this walk.)

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Categories: (Pre-)Roman, Les bourgeois, Trees

Miraculous almond tree cures eczema

Posted: May 1st 2009 09:06. Last modified: May 1st 2009 09:07

And it’s free.

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Categories: Chronic diseases, Les bourgeois, Pagans, Remedies and medicines, Trees

How a right-wing tree became a left-wing tree

Posted: November 27th 2008 07:19.

Over at CrĂłnica Verde, about the ongoing destruction by the Andalusian PSOE of the Doñana National Park. This is quite different from the abuse of natural space during the dictatorship because (all together now!) Franco was of the right, while Chaves is of the left, and the people’s friend to boot.

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Categories: Empires, rulers and warfare, Les bourgeois, Splog, Trees

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Barcelona

  • March 16 1758 

    Fernando III of Barcelona, VI of Castile, establishes a board of commerce to encourage the same, and a commercial tribunal to resolve disputes. He reëstablishes the right of imperiage [I think this must be some kind of feudal arrangement governing property and revenue sharing ...

Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

  • 16 de març de 1918 El senyor Balaguer, escrivent del Jutjat municipal, sol prendre cafè amb el meu pare. És un senyor molt simpĂ tic. Sempre que em troba, em diu: –Vine al Jutjat! FarĂ s prĂ ctica de la carrera, llegirĂ s papers, veurĂ s coses que t’interessaran… –Deuen obrir molt aviat… –que jo [...]

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