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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

Terminal Germinal

Posted: April 13th 2009 11:49.

The pros of walking to Barcelona Airport.

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Categories: Birds, Buildings, Cities, Cultivation of the fields, Fields, landmarks, land measures, Les bourgeois, Mountains, Rivers, Vegetables, Vehicles

The great Catalan gunpowder swindle

Posted: December 15th 2008 11:18. Last modified: February 27th 2009 22:00

As the evenings draw in, the Arenys de Mar sensimilla syndicate has taken time off from the plantation to post another shambling Gran Armada-wreck of nationalist historical revisionism. (It’s dated 2006, but this is the first time it’s turned up in my reader, so…) As is customary, our scenario is back-to-the-future: a massive 15th century [...]

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Categories: Empire, Empires, rulers and warfare, Heathen philosophers, Languages, Stones and metals

Some more sun goddesses

Posted: January 16th 2008 14:48. Last modified: May 12th 2009 19:02

The other day I did a libertarian Raval tour with a particularly dangerous Californian sociologist, and we got onto Orwell’s apparent incapacity to see the most recent civil war as anything but a class conflict betrayed. This despite ethnic-based stuff like the vicious mini-civil war between Catalan fascists associated with Estat CatalĂ  and self-described communist [...]

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Categories: God, the angels and the orders of the faithful, Les bourgeois

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Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

  • 16 de març de 1918 El senyor Balaguer, escrivent del Jutjat municipal, sol prendre cafè amb el meu pare. És un senyor molt simpĂ tic. Sempre que em troba, em diu: –Vine al Jutjat! FarĂ s prĂ ctica de la carrera, llegirĂ s papers, veurĂ s coses que t’interessaran… –Deuen obrir molt aviat… –que jo [...]

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