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A Caja Castilla la Mancha anecdote

Posted: April 2nd 2009 08:59. Last modified: April 2nd 2009 09:18

Broadly illustrative of how we got where we are, with a joke at the end.

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Categories: Buildings, Cities, Empires, rulers and warfare, Les bourgeois

Do traders prefer blondes?

Posted: February 7th 2009 20:21.

If the UK’s worse hit than Spain, how come there’s less fear in the markets of it defaulting on its sovereign debt?

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Categories: Les bourgeois

Bank of Spain introduces inflation-proof €500 banknotes

Posted: December 16th 2008 13:50. Last modified: December 16th 2008 13:52

As private banker to dozens of Andalusian officials I have been responsible for maintaining the padded mattress sector in work this year. Before the summer a client called to complain that inflation threatened to render worthless the not particularly hard-earned stash of 500s he maintains under one of my beds. But there is more [...]

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Categories: Les bourgeois, Splog

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Barcelona

  • March 22 1460 El príncipe de Viana alcanza por primera vez el perdon de su padre, y se viene de Mallorca á Barcelona.
  • March 22 1848 

    En obsequio del beato José Oriol, cuyo fiesta se celebra mañana en la parroquia de Ntra. Sra. del Pino, se cantan en la misma iglesia solemnes maitines á las 4 y media de la tarde de hoy.

Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

  • 22 de març de 1919 Alta cultura. Les coses, és clar, haurien pogut ésser diferents… En acabar el batxillerat, la meva intenció no fou pas d’estudiar per advocat. M’hauria agradat més d’estudiar química, i per tal de servir el que jo creia que era la meva vocació, vaig matricular-me al preparatori de Ciències. Matricular-se! Prenguin nota de la parauleta! El [...]

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