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Samaranch

Posted: April 22nd 2010 15:47.

Check out Liga Loca on silent minutes and Manuel Stimulo on how “a stupid communist French idea about promoting peace among nations through sports events in which their citizens would participate as amateur idiots [was transformed] into a powerhouse steamtrain of propaganda for competition, professionalism, the Triumph of the Will, battering the weak into submission, [...]

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Categories: Ball-playing, Empires, rulers and warfare, Mankind

Accompanying the big A

Posted: March 20th 2010 21:50. Last modified: April 17th 2010 11:17

In which I proffer my experience in the service of the East European mafia as a model for helping us help the Aricept generation.

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Categories: Acute diseases, Chronic diseases, Drink, Les bourgeois, Music, Remedies and medicines, War

Squats demolished c/ Amor, Horta

Posted: March 13th 2009 14:40. Last modified: March 13th 2009 18:16

One of Barcelona’s last patches of pre-war farms, small factories and cottages is under assault from planners.

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Categories: Buildings, Les bourgeois

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  • July 31 1568 Recíbese por un anónimo la noticia de que el primogénito de Felipe II estaba sin esperanzas de vida.
  • July 31 1808 On the 31st of July the Impérieuse silenced, and Lord Cochrane landed with his marines, under Lieutenant James Rivers Hore of that corps, and took possession of the castle of Mongal; an important post completely commanding a pass in the road from Barcelona to Gerona, then besieged by the French,...
  • July 31 1848 En la iglesia parroquial de Ntra. Sra. de Belen que fue de los PP. de la Compañía de Jesus, se celebra con toda solemnidad, la fiesta de san Ignacio de Loyola. Las religiosas de la Enseñanza de la misma órden tributan tambien á este fundador solemnes cultos.
  • July 31 1909 APOLOGY FOR BARCELONA.; Interested In Industry, the People Object to Fighting.
    HENRY DALMASES. July 31, 1909, Saturday I notice in your dispatches of to-day in regard to the Spanish situation that the disturbances in Barcelona and other Spanish Eastern points are classed as ma...
  • July 31 1909 120 REBELS SHOT AT BARCELONA; Authoritative Personage Says 10 Courts-Martial Sat Two Days to Try Them. MANY ARRESTS IN MADRID Authorities Guarding Against Strike To-Morrow — Rebels Still Hold Much of Barcelona, Reports Say. SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain, by Way of the French Frontier, July 31...
  • July 31 1909 AMERICANS IN BARCELONA.; Feared Two Women Cousins of Mrs. Lemoine, the Actress, Are Victims.
  • July 31 1926 Occasionally the old fashioned iron extinguisher of censorship clapped upon Spain by Dictator Premier Primo de Rivera springs a tiny leak, spurts a dark smoke puff of news. Last week the official version of what occurred when the Dictator visited Barcelona was that he “received an enthusias...

Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

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