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Posted: January 15th 2010 11:00. Last modified: February 3rd 2010 18:07

Or was the Second Anglo-Afghan War actually fought in the Pyrenees?

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Categories: Empires, rulers and warfare, Les bourgeois, Liberals & locals

Why I’m called Trevor

Posted: November 12th 2009 17:10. Last modified: November 19th 2009 23:59

Or rather, how my grandfather seems to have been named after a minor railway station.

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Categories: Buildings, Languages, Liberals & locals, Rivers, Roads, Springs, Writers on rural affairs

Drunk and disorderly

Posted: April 6th 2009 17:02. Last modified: April 7th 2009 19:40

A British soldier’s hazy recollections of civil war in Portugal.

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Categories: Drink, Empires, rulers and warfare, Food, Liberals & locals, War

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  • 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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