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	<title>kalebeul &#187; (Pre-)Roman</title>
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	<description>anythingarian bubbles and troubles from the land of the fretting nun</description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Berlusconi and the new (Roman) falange</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/04/30/berlusconia-and-the-new-roman-falange/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/04/30/berlusconia-and-the-new-roman-falange/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:26:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[(Pre-)Roman]]></category>

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

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

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[Mr Clarke blogging at It&#8217;s Probably The Pox, My Son links to a typical bit of mendacity, or gross ignorance if you are feeling charitable, from John Hooper at the Guardian:
Silvio Berlusconi, who won a general election earlier this month, welcomed the latest evidence of Italy&#8217;s leap to the right by declaring: &#8220;We are the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mobile phone training</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/03/19/mobile-phone-training/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/03/19/mobile-phone-training/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[Provided by the Junta de Andalucía in collaboration with Vodafone. Don&#8217;t forget your glasses, and enjoy the raffle, presumably to be held in the rest break between the Introduction and the Practice sections:

The English Wikipedia says that the history of Andalusia ended with the Muslims, which seems like fair comment. The Spanish version says that [...]]]></description>
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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>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>
		
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		<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>Extremadura social club awards honorary membership to Egyptian mum</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/06/01/extremadura-social-club-awards-honorary-membership-to-egyptian-mum/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/06/01/extremadura-social-club-awards-honorary-membership-to-egyptian-mum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 13:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[(Pre-)Roman]]></category>

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

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[ 
The Mother of God of Montserrat can come to Barcelona&#8217;s Hogar Extremeño on Wednesdays to watch the footie but she can&#8217;t bring Anubis. Whatsisname&#8217;s young Dominican is still banned.
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		<title>Therapy for grumpy one-eyed monsters</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/05/22/therapy-for-grumpy-one-eyed-monsters/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/05/22/therapy-for-grumpy-one-eyed-monsters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2007 12:19:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[You could try Clínica Cyclops in Barcelona:

They also have a tree surgery unit:

Update from Dave: a Scottish tree without eyes or mouth that nevertheless eats bicycles.
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		<title>Statues</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/04/26/statues/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/04/26/statues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[(Pre-)Roman]]></category>

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

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[Would those who say that we should hang on to a few Francos because it was how things were, weren&#8217;t it, say the same of images of Marx? I&#8217;m something a fan of the Roman custom of leaving statue torsos intact and swapping heads as each dictator came and went.
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		<title>Of trousersnakes</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/04/21/of-trousersnakes/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/04/21/of-trousersnakes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2007 09:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[(Pre-)Roman]]></category>

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[Did the serpent deflower Eve or merely provide professional consulting services, thus relegating humans to a subsidiary role in creation?
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		<title>Founded by Hercules</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/04/01/founded-by-hercules/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/04/01/founded-by-hercules/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 17:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Alphabetical list (via GBS unless otherwise indicated), and with no particular attention paid to the Greek vs Lybian business, to the Roman/West Mediterranean cult, or to anything else for that matter:

&#8220;ABDERA, ab-dé&#8217;-ra, a maritime city in Thrace&#8221; (Beeton&#8217;s Classical Dictionary)
Alesia, an ancient town of the Man« dubii in Gallia Lugdunensis, said to have been founded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nazón de Breogán</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/11/22/nazon-de-breogan/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/11/22/nazon-de-breogan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2006 14:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

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

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[If the ruling Galician national socialists want to redefine the region in their statute of autonomy as the &#8220;nation of Breogan&#8221; (their leader says their identity is in their genes), does that mean that, like their mythical hero, they&#8217;re going to spend all their money building a great big tower and then take the whole [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Was Adam Catalan?</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/11/12/was-adam-catalan/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/11/12/was-adam-catalan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[Following Mad Mas&#8217; exposition, at the invented tomb of invented Wilf the Hairy, of Catalanista scientific doctrine&#8211;Article 1: Just because something is false doesn&#8217;t mean it ain&#8217;t true&#8211;, Luis Alfonso Gámez picks up on an important story which the nutters have somehow missed. (Thanks to Carlos Ferrero)
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		<title>Hannibal TV</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/10/09/hannibal-tv/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/10/09/hannibal-tv/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2006 11:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Tunisia&#8217;s first private TV company doesn&#8217;t seem to have any elephants. (Via Karim)
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		<title>Early Basque / stars of colour</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/06/24/early-basque-stars-of-colour/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/06/24/early-basque-stars-of-colour/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jun 2006 18:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Given the interesting record of Basque philology, I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if the early Basque fragments found at Iruña-Veleia (near Vitoria-Gasteiz) turned out to be fakes. The inscription urdin isar, blue/greyish star, certainly leaves me curious. Off-hand I can think of no pre-C18th texts in any Western European language that refer to stars by their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greeks and Romans weren&#8217;t into kinky sex orgies</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/06/02/greeks-and-romans-werent-into-kinky-sex-orgies/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/06/02/greeks-and-romans-werent-into-kinky-sex-orgies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 19:58:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Alastair Blanshard of Sydney Uni says the myth was invented by Christians and encouraged modern pervs like Oscar Wilde seeking to justify their behaviour. How sad.
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		<title>Sweet broom</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/05/28/sweet-broom/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/05/28/sweet-broom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 May 2006 15:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Empire]]></category>

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an old foreshadow&#8211;give or take the odd sacrifice&#8211;of a recent nocturnal trip in the English translation by Grace Frick of Yourcenar&#8217;s Hadrian:
A few days before the departure from Antioch I went to offer sacrifice, as in other years, on the summit of Mount Casius. The ascent was made by night; just as for Aetna, [...]]]></description>
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