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Yet another St George’s day rose disaster

Posted: April 23rd 2009 22:11. Last modified: April 23rd 2009 22:16

Don’t try to force feminism on women.

Bleeding-heart hippy

Posted: March 27th 2009 12:18. Last modified: March 27th 2009 12:34

Iglesia Parroquial de Santa Teresa de Jesús, Carmelo, Barcelona.

Gaudí’s pelican leaves Sagrada Familia, makes new home in Bavaria

Posted: March 15th 2009 17:03. Last modified: March 15th 2009 19:29

Is it on a mission from God?

Eye and Hand of Fatima on gypsy door in Perpignan

Posted: December 7th 2008 12:41. Last modified: April 13th 2009 23:57

Efforts have been made to erase a sticker of a member of the Incredible Hulk clan. Superimposed on the wooden cross of the door, what a formidable Trinity that would have been! (Anglocabrones often say the eye belongs to Providence. Whatever.)
Sometimes the Eye and the Hand are combined in one icon, as in this Hamsa [...]

Tibidabo set to music

Posted: December 1st 2008 22:09. Last modified: December 1st 2008 22:19

Little Susie performs “The temptation of Jesus”, which is to say Luke 4:1-13, whereunder, kind-of:
Satan mennen l’ yon kote ki wo. Yon sèl kou, li moutre l’ tout peyi ki sou latè.
Li di Jezi konsa: M’ap ba ou tout pouvwa ak tout richès peyi sa yo. Yo renmèt tout bagay sa yo nan men mwen, [...]

Obscure Spanish footie team told to get rid of Cross of St George on alternative kit

Posted: November 16th 2008 23:05.

Apparently it might incite violence. Particularly, one suspects, if the directors of the taxpayer-funded Permanent Seminar on International Migration and Foreigners (”an open space for Interculturality and Human Rights“) in Aragon attend home matches of SD Huesca, whose major achievement to date was fifth place in the Second Division in the 1950-1 season. Via Miguel [...]

On this day

Barcelona

  • July 5 1522 Solemnes rogativas para el feliz viage del rey D. Cárlos I que venia de Alemania, á donde fue para tomar posesion del imperio.
  • July 5 1844 

    I am delighted with Barcelona. It is a beautiful city, especially the new part, with a mixture of Spanish, French, and Italian character. The climate is soft and voluptuous, the heats being tempered by the sea breezes. Instead of the naked desert which surrounds Madrid, we have here, between the ...

  • July 5 1848 

    En la iglesia de la Trinidad, hoy parroquia de San Jaime, se celebra una solemne funcion en honor del
    beato Miguel de los Santos que habia pertenecido á la órden trinitaria, y cuya imágen se venera en un altar de dicha iglesia. La concurrencia no es reducida, y de las tres partes las dos...

  • July 5 1899 

    SPANISH MOBS STILL ACTIVE.; Further Disturbances at Alicante, Valencia, and Barcelona.

  • July 5 1909 

    MORE BOMBS IN BARCELONA.; One Explodes in Cafe, Another Found at Circus Wrecks a Van.

Palafrugell and thereabouts

  • Sorry, nothing doing today.

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