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The right and the wrong type of snow, according to Avicenna, Aristotle and Plutarch

Posted: February 11th 2010 00:19. Last modified: February 11th 2010 07:40

With an excerpt from a plea for more state funding by the Bostonian Western Rail-road, in which we are given to understand that snow is not necessarily a bad thing.

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Categories: (Pre-)Roman, Empires, rulers and warfare, Heathen philosophers, Les bourgeois, Roads, The air and the clouds, Vehicles

Why they didn’t find Lorca

Posted: December 18th 2009 17:17. Last modified: December 18th 2009 17:40

Bishop Gibson of Granada understands beatific bureaucracy but not tradition. Featuring a bad Vietnamese flamenco clip.

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Categories: Empires, rulers and warfare, God, the angels and the orders of the faithful, Les bourgeois, Liberals & locals, Monsters, Poets, Religion and faith, Theatre

Simple fix for Spain’s poverty crisis

Posted: March 9th 2009 15:07. Last modified: March 9th 2009 15:11

Gypsy clans living on an old dung heap north of Granada may have the answer.

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Categories: Building construction, Empires, rulers and warfare, Les bourgeois, Mankind, Music

How the Moriscos of Granada made poison darts

Posted: June 29th 2007 14:40. Last modified: December 20th 2009 17:05

The action sometimes turned a shade Bulgarian during the Granada Wars–at least that’s what one infers from Diego Hurtado de Mendoza in this extract from Guerra de Granada (paras introduced for legibility):
Wounded by two poisoned arrows, Don Alonso [de Aguilar] fought until he fell, disabled by the poison used among hunters since ancient times. As [...]

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Categories: Empire, War

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  • March 21 1848 

    En Barcelona como en otras partes comienza hoy la primavera, que en honor de la verdad no suele ser aqui la estacion mas hermosa del año. Cierto que ya los árboles comienzan á echar hoja, y que la linda y olorosa violeta alfombra los jardines y ribazos, y que le hacen cortejo otras flores; per...

Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

  • 21 de març de 1918 En aquest país tenim un costum molt curiós. Quan ens trobem, al carrer, dues persones, cara a cara, no tenim, a penes, res a dir-nos. Però, una vegada acomiadats i fets set o vuit passos, se’ns ocorren tot d’una una sèrie de coses urgents a dir a la persona que hem deixat fa un moment. [...]
  • 21 de març de 1919 Inici de la primavera. Biblioteca. Tot traduint Renard penso que és més important dominar un ofici qualsevol que posseir una curiositat dilatada, vastíssima. La curiositat es pot improvisar; un ofici, no. La curiositat és superficialment agradable, però deixa una certa buidor amarga per dintre. Un ofici és monòton i pesat, però té moments d’una voluptuositat [...]

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