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	<title>kalebeul &#187; Of the earth or something</title>
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	<description>anythingarian bubbles and troubles from the land of the fretting nun</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Spain doesn&#8217;t have a climate</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/09/20/spain-doesnt-have-a-climate/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/09/20/spain-doesnt-have-a-climate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 09:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Of the earth or something]]></category>

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

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/?p=8092</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Spanish climatological records reveal that in the Cold Triangle [ie Teruel, Molina de Aragón and Calamocha] there have been numerous episodes &#8230; with temperatures below -25ºC at less than 200km from the mild Mediterranean as the crow flies. [This is one demonstration of the fact] that Spain has climates, not a climate.&#8221; (Aupí, Guía del [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What to do with falling boulders</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/09/20/what-to-do-with-falling-boulders/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/09/20/what-to-do-with-falling-boulders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 09:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

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

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/?p=8090</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday February 29 1912, the 300-tonne Restless Rock of Tandil, Buenos Aires plunged from its extraordinary state of hillside equilibrium to a granite trinity below. The residents rebuilt it last year, and it now pulls almost as many tourists as Swanmore Pond. Unfortunately, Cairo&#8217;s cliff-edgers built on sand.
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		<title>Hunting Spanish trolls</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/08/20/hunting-spanish-trolls/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/08/20/hunting-spanish-trolls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

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

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/?p=7970</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Re the War of Jackson&#8217;s Sneer, Colin Davies notes the presence of trolls in Spain but suggests they have still not discovered the woods and grottoes of the Royal Academy. Not so: it&#8217;s just that the RAE, for reasons that are logical but probably doomed, calls them trol. 
If their behaviour is anything like that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Ripoll, the future Pittsburg of Spain&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/21/ripoll-the-future-pittsburg-of-spain/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/21/ripoll-the-future-pittsburg-of-spain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Liberals &#038; locals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of stones &amp; metals]]></category>

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/?p=7943</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Coal and iron in Spain&#8221;, 16/11/1877: &#8220;From Vich, the present terminal point, to the coal mines of San Juan de Abadesas of the railroad which some day in the future will be the grand trunk line to Paris, the Government has built a good substantial stage-road to Ripoll.&#8221; The railway arrived in Sant Joan de [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Persistent rains produce more giant Spanish plants</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/16/persistent-rains-produce-more-giant-spanish-plants/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/16/persistent-rains-produce-more-giant-spanish-plants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

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

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

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/?p=7938</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recalling this, oranges weighing a kilo in Salamanca and 4-metre sunflowers in the mutant garden of Riba-Roja.
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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>

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

		<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>People&#8217;s Revolutionary Plastering Squad</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/11/28/peoples-revolutionary-plastering-squad/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/11/28/peoples-revolutionary-plastering-squad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[This has been on the back burner for a while, but, following the fine example of Untergunther, it is hoped that work will soon be resumed on recladding all those farmhouses whose profitable stripped-stone effect is unauthentic and causes them to fall down sooner. Sheep-dyeing (thanks MM) is not done, although if they have just [...]]]></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>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Empire]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/09/24/novel-explanation-for-presence-of-volcanos-and-river-gold-in-the-pyrenees/</guid>
		<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>Archaeological highlights of walk along old Hispanic military frontier</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/09/05/archaeological-highlights-of-trip-along-old-hispanic-military-frontier/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/09/05/archaeological-highlights-of-trip-along-old-hispanic-military-frontier/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 05:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[(Pre-)Roman]]></category>

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

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[From the baldie:

Some unusual Neolithic rock paintings. Apparently the locals used to take tourists to visit them and, to improve their colour and line, throw buckets of water over them. Once almost everything had been washed away, the authorities acted with characteristic firmness, building a 4m wall-with-spikes around the complex. The locals now explain to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irrigation folds</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/07/19/irrigation-folds/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/07/19/irrigation-folds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Of pictures]]></category>

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

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/07/15/irrigation-folds/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pascual Boronat y Barrachina, Los moriscos españoles y su expulsión (1901): &#8220;su admirable sistema de irrigación por medio de acequias y canales.&#8221; There are few sights and sounds more satisfying than this system of horizontal soaks and vertical sluices in action.
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		<title>Straw woman</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/07/05/straw-woman/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/07/05/straw-woman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[Giant Haystacks would be more accurate but disrespectful to the memory of the great wrestler. This ain&#8217;t Barcelona, so no lonely farmers bumping themselves off at the sight of Heidi&#8217;s mountains.

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		<title>Hos in Spain</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/03/09/hos-in-spain/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/03/09/hos-in-spain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2005 16:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Of the earth or something]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On cultivating our garden.]]></description>
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		<title>Barcelona-Cadiz, part 1</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/01/29/barcelona-cadiz-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/01/29/barcelona-cadiz-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2005 21:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Of regions &amp; provinces]]></category>

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/01/29/barcelona-cadiz-part-1/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Brief report on carnival, goat à l'africaine, and a night out with the Belarussian putimafia.]]></description>
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		<title>Comparative vomit trail studies</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/06/12/comparative-vomit-trail-studies/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/06/12/comparative-vomit-trail-studies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2004 13:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Of the Pyrenees]]></category>

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[I caught the first train out of town this morning to go and inspect what a certain farmer has in the fields round the the back (large sections of horse skeleton) before the man rose from his slumbers. Sitting across the carriage from me was an attractive woman, and at the next stop a drunk [...]]]></description>
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