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	<title>kalebeul &#187; Liberals &#038; locals</title>
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	<description>anythingarian bubbles and troubles from the land of the fretting nun</description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 17:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Killer cure</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/05/09/killer-cure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 17:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor ap Simon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[Of sicknesses and venoms]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Stricken by Barcelona belly, I&#8217;ve been trying out this 19th century cholera cure. It&#8217;s better with rice, but I&#8217;m still surprised more people didn&#8217;t die. (Sublimated sulphur is used by modern-day lepers, says the chemist, so that wasn&#8217;t a problem.)
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		<title>Dos de Mayo shootings</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/05/08/dos-de-mayo-shootings/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/05/08/dos-de-mayo-shootings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 13:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor ap Simon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Liberals &#038; locals]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;José Lone, natural de Madrid, casado con Francisca de San Pedro, de la que tenía un niño de 7 meses, de oficio tendero en la plazuela de Santo Domingo, núm.6, faltó de su casa desde el dia  2 de Mayo á las cinco de la tarde: su madre María Riscos dijo que tenía la [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Justo Bueno chiselled out of historical memory</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/05/06/justo-bueno-chiselled-out-of-historical-memory/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/05/06/justo-bueno-chiselled-out-of-historical-memory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 15:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor ap Simon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Liberals &#038; locals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of beasts of prey]]></category>

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

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

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[This is the anarchist serial killer who, according to a good series of articles by Josep Maria Sòria in La Vanguardia in 2003,

in April 1936 shot dead Miquel Badia. (To be fair, Badia had it coming, as he himself acknowledged: failed regicide, fascist bootboy and strikebreaker for &#8220;our caudillo&#8221; Francesc Macià, head of security under [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adam Aston singing Czerwone maki na Monte Cassino</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/05/01/adam-aston-singing-czerwone-maki-na-monte-cassino/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/05/01/adam-aston-singing-czerwone-maki-na-monte-cassino/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 18:26:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor ap Simon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Liberals &#038; locals]]></category>

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

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the first times I played in public as a kid was at the local Polish club, and I remember trying to figure out what all these old folks were doing in this neighbourhood, amid numerous refugees from newer tyrannies in Asia and Africa and Latin America. After that it was a short conceptual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Der Engel</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/04/30/der-engel/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/04/30/der-engel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor ap Simon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Liberals &#038; locals]]></category>

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[
When I saw this first I briefly thought it was Montjuïc viewed from Maians Island, where Quixote first saw the sea. But the sun sets west, not south, and those are mountains in the background, not clouds. So it must be Italy, somewhere. Here&#8217;s the text.
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		<title>Spaniard found not guilty of theft because of poor language skills</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/04/27/spaniard-found-not-guilty-of-theft-because-of-poor-language-skills/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/04/27/spaniard-found-not-guilty-of-theft-because-of-poor-language-skills/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor ap Simon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Liberals &#038; locals]]></category>

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[The proceedings of the Old Bailey are now searchable to 1913. Apart from anything else they are an interesting source of information re the misfortunes of London&#8217;s Spanish population, from the refugees from Fernando VII to the anarchist trials in the 1890s. The following testimony to the traditional linguistic handicap of the Iberian tribes was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three versions of &#8220;El relicario&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/04/21/three-versions-of-el-relicario/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/04/21/three-versions-of-el-relicario/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor ap Simon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

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

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[Raquel Meller, the most successful Spanish artist of the 20th century, struggling with pitch and pace in 1914:

Sara Montiel, who made her name in the 50s singing old Raquel Meller songs, only much better:

Rudolph Valentino, who would have struggled to compete with barnyard animals had films not been silent:

Maybe the X Factor isn&#8217;t so bad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Sorceress&#8221; Raquel Meller, TIME Magazine cover</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/04/18/sorceress-raquel-meller-time-magazine-cover/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/04/18/sorceress-raquel-meller-time-magazine-cover/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor ap Simon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Liberals &#038; locals]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[This delectable flor del mal from Barcelona&#8217;s Poble Sec district is a daisychain from A Nun&#8217;s link to a review of a book dealing with degradation and deviancy in the same neighbourhood. New York, April 26 1926:
Ushers with tall combs and white mantillas stole back up the aisles as the house lights faded out. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dreyfus affair</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/04/09/the-dreyfus-affair/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/04/09/the-dreyfus-affair/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor ap Simon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Liberals &#038; locals]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[Still showing along the Sequia Comtal in Clot, by then incorporated into Barcelona. The date is 1914, which is to say 20 years later, and just as Dreyfus was limbering up to go to war once more. I suppose the flick must have been French translated into Spanish. Incidentally, goats make excellent cinema audiences and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;My great uncle took the Spanish government into exile&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/04/07/my-great-uncle-took-the-spanish-government-into-exile/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/04/07/my-great-uncle-took-the-spanish-government-into-exile/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 07:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor ap Simon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Liberals &#038; locals]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[From the often superb BBC WWII site:
As France fell my great uncle Ioannis (John) Colentzos was captain of a Greek freighter berthed in Bordeaux. He a did not wish to remain in the port as he was uncertain of what the outcome might be for his vessel once the Germans got there. Greece was not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I met man who almost killed Orwell</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/04/01/i-met-man-who-almost-killed-orwell/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/04/01/i-met-man-who-almost-killed-orwell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor ap Simon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Liberals &#038; locals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sez No Good Boyo:
&#8220;If you’d known who he was, would you have killed him?&#8221; &#8220;Of course. He was fifth-columnist, Trotsky-Maxtonite traitor to worker class. My boys would have tattooed hammer and sickle on his head with bullets. We had many. Soviet economy strong.&#8221;
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		<title>Get another of Paul de Kock&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/03/29/get-another-of-paul-de-kocks/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/03/29/get-another-of-paul-de-kocks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor ap Simon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Liberals &#038; locals]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[Ulysses: &#8220;I suppose the people gave him that nickname going about with his tube from one woman to another.&#8221; Junius Henri Browne wrote in 1873 that he &#8220;gained a much worse reputation [in the US] for licentious stories than he deserved, from the spurious and prurient rubbish that used to be put off on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jaroslav Hašek in Barcelona, almost</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/03/24/jaroslav-hasek-in-barcelona-almost/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/03/24/jaroslav-hasek-in-barcelona-almost/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor ap Simon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Liberals &#038; locals]]></category>

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[Just before he died, says Cecil Parrott in The bad Bohemian, the author of The good soldier Švejk (that&#8217;s Shvake: &#8220;No one pronounces it Shvike&#8211;not even in Germany&#8221;) drafted a letter to the district police:
I, the undersigned, ask respectfully to be kindly given the necessary passport for a stay in Spain (Barcelona, Calle Rosellos [sic: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Washing machine invented in Barcelona?</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/03/19/washing-machine-invented-in-barcelona/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/03/19/washing-machine-invented-in-barcelona/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor ap Simon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Liberals &#038; locals]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[I ask because the chattels of the gentlemen right fore in this early nineteenth century image of the Palace of Barcelona clearly include a front-loading automatic:

(Full image on single-post page.)
Blasco de Garay, eat your heart out.
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		<title>Barraquismo</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/03/17/barraquismo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor ap Simon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Valencia, late C19:
Batiste no dudó que aquellas gentes se vengarían. Conocía los procedimientos usuales en la huerta. Para aquella tierra no se había hecho la justicia de la ciudad; el presidio era poca cosa tratándose de satisfacer un resentimiento. ¿Para qué necesitaba un hombre jueces ni Guardia civil, teniendo buen ojo y una escopeta en [...]]]></description>
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