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	<title>kalebeul &#187; Empire</title>
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	<description>anythingarian bubbles and troubles from the land of the fretting nun</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Recession rations</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/10/10/recession-rations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Empire]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of food]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of vomiting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Debating at lunch how long it would be before we&#8217;re all eating grass soup (sopa de golf on the costas), we progressed to the devil&#8217;s cookbook, and someone mentioned the 16th century colonial chronicler, Bernardino de Sahagún. 
Back when Bernardino was booking the cooks Mictlan was where dead Aztecs lived&#8211;way up north, probably in New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patron saint of Barcelona swapped because of climate change?</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/09/20/patron-saint-of-barcelona-swapped-because-of-climate-change/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/09/20/patron-saint-of-barcelona-swapped-because-of-climate-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 10:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Empire]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of God]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of the earth or something]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When the original cathedral was consecrated in 1058, it was dedicated to the Holy Cross and to St Eulalia, who on February 12 303 was put in a barrel lined with knives or glass, rolled down the hill out of Roman Barcelona, and unbreasted, crucified and decapitated near one of my favourite bars, whereupon a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How jam fakers robbed the Spanish throne</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/09/06/how-jam-fakers-robbed-the-spanish-throne/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/09/06/how-jam-fakers-robbed-the-spanish-throne/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Empire]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Liberals &#038; locals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of drink]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of food]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of those who go on foot]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Processing is underway into diverse preserves of the considerable quantities of blackberries and figs gathered this afternoon with la Primitiva Hermandad de la Primera Sueca on a variant of this walk. Some of the blackberries are being turned into liquor, and I found this whilst fishing around for a more unsuitable recipe:
A very laughable story [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prostitution in 16th century Rome</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/12/prostitution-in-16th-century-rome/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/12/prostitution-in-16th-century-rome/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Empire]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of God]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of the marketplace]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There was a lot of it:
Mirá, hay putas graciosas más que hermosas, y putas que son putas antes que mochachas, hay putas apasionadas, putas estregadas, afeitadas, putas esclarecidas, putas reputadas, reprobadas, hay putas mozárabes de Zocodover, putas carceveras: hay putas de cabo de ronda, putas ursianas, putas güelfas, gibelinas, putas injuinas, putas de rapalo rapaynas, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elizabeth I in the pay of Spain all along</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/05/10/elizabeth-i-in-the-pay-of-spain-all-along/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/05/10/elizabeth-i-in-the-pay-of-spain-all-along/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 08:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Empire]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of etymology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of wars, games and stuff]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Watching Helen Mirren last night. Quoth the people of Spain: Elizabeth -> Bess not Beth because it was given her by her Andalusian seseo-masters. And one was snoring too hard to disagree.
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		<title>Ancient circular enclosures in northern Spain</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/11/28/ancient-circular-enclosures-in-northern-spain/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/11/28/ancient-circular-enclosures-in-northern-spain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[(Pre-)Roman]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Early Middle]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Late Middle]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of flocks and work animals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of the earth or something]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of the law]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dido and Hengist are remembered as early heroes of isoperimetry for having solved the challenge of maximising the area of a land grant made to them by stringing together strips of oxhide and using the resulting closed superthong to trace, respectively, a semi-circle at Carthage and a full circle at Kaercorrei. 
What was news to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Novel explanation for presence of volcanoes and river gold in the Pyrenees</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/09/24/novel-explanation-for-presence-of-volcanoes-and-river-gold-in-the-pyrenees/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/09/24/novel-explanation-for-presence-of-volcanoes-and-river-gold-in-the-pyrenees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[James Howell, Epistolae Ho-Elianae: Familiar Letters, Domestic and Forren (1688, on GBS):
There is a Tradition, that there were divers Mines of Gold in Ages pass&#8217;d amongst those Mountains; and the Shepherds kept Goats then, having made a small Fire of Rosemary-Shrubs with other combustible stuff, to warm themselves, this Fire grew along, and grew so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inventing al-Andalus</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/08/24/inventing-al-andalus/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/08/24/inventing-al-andalus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Of those who go on foot]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[MM has kindly mailed the story of an illegal from Mali found climbing one of the Sierra Nevada&#8217;s major peaks in flipflops. Jorge Rodríguez&#8217;z story in El País, plagiarised by Elizabeth Nash for The Independent, has Anthony Braxton Tony Brascons making the same journey in reverse undertaken in sandals by Judar Pasha, who they describe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>En pelota</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/08/23/en-pelota/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Of etymology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The other night reading the C18th Motteux translation of Quixote &#8220;by several hands&#8221; in a cheap American edition without date or attribution. The passage where they free and are then beaten by galley slaves has this: 
They also eas&#8217;d Sancho of his upper coat, and left him in his doublet.
The translator or editor leaves a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How the Moriscos of Granada made poison darts</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/06/29/how-the-moriscos-of-granada-made-poison-darts/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/06/29/how-the-moriscos-of-granada-made-poison-darts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Of wars, games and stuff]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The action sometimes turned a shade Bulgarian during the Granada Wars&#8211;at least that&#8217;s what one infers from Diego Hurtado de Mendoza in this extract from Guerra de Granada (paras introduced for legibility):
Wounded by two poisoned arrows, Don Alonso [de Aguilar] fought until he fell, disabled by the poison used among hunters since ancient times. As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pródiga de la vida, y anticipadora de la muerte</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/05/09/prodiga-de-la-vida-y-anticipadora-de-la-muerte/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/05/09/prodiga-de-la-vida-y-anticipadora-de-la-muerte/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2007 10:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Lovely phrase, something along the lines of &#8220;lavish in life, eager in death&#8221;, used here to describe the Spanish, although you will doubtless recall similar elsewhere. It&#8217;s from the discourse by the Count of Portalegre which rounds off the BBG edition of Guerra de Granada, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza&#8217;s chronicle of the disastrous rural uprisings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pietre dure</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/04/25/pietre-dure/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/04/25/pietre-dure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Of decorating with pictures]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s some excellent decorative stonework in the posher parts of Barcelona&#8217;s Eixample, but the Italians are in a different league.
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		<title>Giffoot, rare synonym for Ladino?</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/01/17/giffoot-rare-synonym-for-ladino/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/01/17/giffoot-rare-synonym-for-ladino/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Found whilst hunting help for a tiny bit of Judæo-Spanish/Sefardi/Dzhudezmo/Judezmo/Spanyol/Spanyolit/Ladino-English translation I did for someone. The book is The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North &#8230;, The Hon. Sir Dudley North &#8230;, and The Hon. and Rev. Dr. John North (Roger North, 1826, available on GBS), the year is 1680, and the great English [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extracts from the letters of Don Fernando to various kings and princes of the world</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/12/15/extracts-from-the-letters-of-don-fernando-to-various-kings-and-princes-of-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/12/15/extracts-from-the-letters-of-don-fernando-to-various-kings-and-princes-of-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Zazie@Cocanha has scanned extracts from two versions of the highly amusing Cartas d’el Rei D. Fernando, O Catholico, a varios reis e principes do mundo, e suas respostas: colligidas e commentadas por Fr. Antonio Tarfan de los Godos, Commendador na Ordem de S. João de Jerusalem: the first bunch from a manuscript in the collection [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christening of Moors, devolution of justice to gypsies etc in C16th Scotland</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/12/07/christening-of-moors-devolution-of-justice-to-gypsies-etc-in-c16th-scotland/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/12/07/christening-of-moors-devolution-of-justice-to-gypsies-etc-in-c16th-scotland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2006 21:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Check the curious items and documents starting p591, including payments to &#8220;blak Margaret&#8221; and the precept granting &#8220;the Earl and Lord of Little Egypt&#8221; the power &#8220;to hang and punish all Egyptians within the Kingdome of Scotland.&#8221;
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