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Wellington vs Glasgow Rangers’ International Brigadiers, and the origins of “No pasarán” and “No surrender”

Posted: June 14th 2009 21:17. Last modified: June 15th 2009 08:52

Nominations for the noblest British fighter in a Spanish war, and speculative revisions of the history of two idiot idioms.

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  • March 15 1401 

    Barcelona’s five small hospitals meet in the Colom Hospital [part of the current Santa Creu building], called after its founder [Guillem de Colom, 1219], and take the name of the Holy Cross.
    Los cinco hospitales pequeños que habia en Barcelona se reunen al...

Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

  • 15 de març de 1919 El mecanisme de la penya. La primera persona que sol arribar a la tertĂşlia, havent dinat, Ă©s Enric JardĂ­. Arriba caminant pausadament, portant sota el braç dos diaris: «L’Action Française» i «L’Humanité». És un home que segueix amb una gran lucidesa i un agut esperit dialèctic els moviments extrems de les idees –únics que en [...]

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