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	<title>kalebeul &#187; Decline</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>Extraordinary effects of a solar eclipse on the population of Tripoli on June 4 1788</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/09/22/extraordinary-effects-of-a-solar-eclipse-on-the-population-of-tripoli-on-june-4-1788/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tully, Letters written during a ten years&#8217; residence at the court of Tripoli (1819):
June 12 1788
To you, my dear friend, who are always alive to the beauties and effects of nature, I cannot omit describing what an extraordinary impression an eclipse makes on the uninformed part of the inhabitants of Barbary. Of this we had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revisionist version of September 11 1714</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/09/10/revisionist-version-of-september-11-1714/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s what Ciudadanos thinks you should know about the fall of Barcelona in 1714, mourned tomorrow by nationalists with silly flags, bad music and vandalism of ATM machines:

On September 11 a commemoration takes place of the surrender of the city of Barcelona in 1714, following the declaration of war made by the Catalan Parliament on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Para tener buenos melones</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/19/para-tener-buenos-melones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Querida amiga, ahórrate los honorarios del carnicero cosmético leyendo los Secretos raros de artes y oficios (1807):
Para tener buenos melones. Se remojan las pepitas de melon por dos ó tres dias en buen, vino moscatel añejo. Se tendrá la paciencia, de ir abriendo con destreza un cierto número de pepitas por el agujerillo que han [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Siege of Barcelona by the French in 1697</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/03/siege-of-barcelona-by-the-french-in-1697/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/03/siege-of-barcelona-by-the-french-in-1697/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Swedish Military Archive, this purports to show Vendôme at the head of some 32,000 troops bombarding Barcelona in the final stages of the Nine Years War:
Wikipedia: &#8220;The garrison capitulated on 10 August, but it had been a hard fought contest; French casualties amounted to about 9,000, and the Spanish had suffered some 12,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The RAE takes the wall and then goes and loses the bugger</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/06/21/the-rae-takes-the-wall-and-then-goes-and-loses-the-bugger/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/06/21/the-rae-takes-the-wall-and-then-goes-and-loses-the-bugger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 05:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many thanks to Javier for introducing me to the Cantabrian Quixote, which devotes a whole chapter to a duel resulting from a disagreement about who should dexar la acera, give the wall sidewalk. Not surprisingly, like the cognate discussed in the linked post, it doesn&#8217;t turn up in the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The madness of King George, authorised for all pubics</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/06/20/the-madness-of-king-george-authorised-for-all-pubics/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/06/20/the-madness-of-king-george-authorised-for-all-pubics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Spanish DVD is poorly produced but this error was probably planned:

George finds sanity through lunacy, monarchy through dethronement. The film is as fine in its own way as the original play was, and Nigel Hawthorne is divine. Handel was George I and II, not III, but period films normally inflict far greater musical torments.
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		<title>Generalitat drops C18th Catalan language ban claim</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/04/28/generalitat-drops-c18th-catalan-language-ban-claim/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/04/28/generalitat-drops-c18th-catalan-language-ban-claim/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peret&#8217;s (Catalan-language) recording of El mig amic is from Spanish telly in 1969, when, as Wikipedia continues to remind us, the &#8220;use of Catalan in the mass media was forbidden.&#8221; Such claims have decreased considerably over the last five years due solely to kalebeul&#8217;s relentless and fearless campaigning. One important defeat for the inventors of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Holy Boys</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/04/17/the-holy-boys/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/04/17/the-holy-boys/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Xavi Caballé has read a book which suggests that the 18th century predecessors of the Norfolk Regiment were thus called because Spanish soldiers thought their Britannia badge represented the Virgin Mary. There&#8217;s another, more scurrilous version:
Well, I got fond enough, after all, of the Holy Boys, as the old Ninth lads were called&#8230; You see, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>French to Apaches: your Spanish allies are a load of big fanny girls</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/04/10/french-to-apaches-your-spanish-allies-are-a-load-of-big-fanny-girls/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/04/10/french-to-apaches-your-spanish-allies-are-a-load-of-big-fanny-girls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Or something along those lines. Jerry R Craddock clears up this and a number of other confusions in his excellent inaugural Disparatorio del suroeste. (Via Jesús Rodríguez Velasco). Galdós was politer in Trafalgar, but we all know what he meant. This one will run and run.
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		<title>The official contemporary British take on 1714</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/04/08/the-official-contemporary-british-take-on-1714/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/04/08/the-official-contemporary-british-take-on-1714/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A summary of the statement made to the Commons in April 1714 (History and Proceedings of the House of Commons : volume 5: 1713-1714): 
Catalonia swore loyalty to Philip V and its ancient privileges were guaranteed. Unfortunately it then changed its mind, rebelled, and appealed to Britain for help, claiming that Catalonia and Spain were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Casanova warns Spanish authorities re sexual mores of &#8220;Swiss&#8221; immigrants to Sierra Nevada, plus the etymology and origins of flamenco, and other items of interest</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/04/02/casanova-warns-spanish-authorities-re-sexual-mores-of-swiss-immigrants-to-sierra-nevada-plus-the-etymology-and-origins-of-flamenco-and-other-items-of-interest/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/04/02/casanova-warns-spanish-authorities-re-sexual-mores-of-swiss-immigrants-to-sierra-nevada-plus-the-etymology-and-origins-of-flamenco-and-other-items-of-interest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the many etymologies of flamenco is rather curious. From the typically poor Spanish-language entry in Wikipedia: 
Durante el siglo XVIII el asistente Olavide pretendió combatir el bandolerismo instaurando colonias de catolicos alemanes y flamencos (tenidos por disciplinados y laboriosos) en el Alto Guadalquivir. El fracaso de adaptación de muchos de ellos engrosó las [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barcelona monument mistranslates Celan, misrepresents the Holocaust</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/03/27/barcelona-monument-mistranslates-celan-misrepresents-the-holocaust/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/03/27/barcelona-monument-mistranslates-celan-misrepresents-the-holocaust/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The monument is a quality marble tomb round about where the sea gate was, on which Habsburg general Josep Moragues&#8217; head hung in a cage for 12 years from 1715-1727, his body having previously been quartered on the Ramblas. This for surrendering on a Bourbon pardon at the end of the War of the Spanish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Continuity in voodoo needle magic in Barcelona: 1800s Inquisition records and 1900s crime reports</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/03/14/continuity-in-voodoo-needle-magic-in-in-barcelona-1800s-inquisition-records-and-1900s-crime-reports/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Antonio Gascón Ricao:
Es de sobras conocido que una de las habilidades más comunes de las brujas consiste en clavar agujas o cortar con unas tijeras un corazón, el hígado o los riñones de un animal, y así, el daño causado en dichos órganos animales se puede reproducir de igual forma en la persona a la [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book dumping</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/12/07/book-dumping/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2006 PISA report is a tribute to the success of Spanish regional and national governments and teaching unions in maintaining high levels of popular illiteracy and innumeracy&#8211;one wonders how many new property owners understood anything of the mortgages they contracted during the construction boom; see also ADN, which believes there&#8217;s a 1 in 20 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1714 massacres</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/10/04/1714-massacres/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at the new Barcelona historical almanac I&#8217;m slowly putting together I just posted the passage from José Sabau y Blanco&#8217;s update to Juan de Mariana&#8217;s Historia general de España (1822) dealing with the end of the Hapsburg rebellion in and around Barcelona, with massacres by both sides of villages and the lynching by the [...]]]></description>
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