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Ahistorical Albacete

Posted: September 28th 2005 13:17. Last modified: June 8th 2007 14:37

Unlike Carlos, I’m actually rather fond of Albacete, and not just because its ugliness is on a smaller scale than Birmingham’s. Although generally more energy tends to be devoted to damnation than to praise, I found out the other night, flicking through a book called Historia de la provincia de Albacete, that I’m not the [...]

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Categories: Liberals & locals, Thunder

Galdós and those spud-crazy guiris

Posted: March 14th 2005 22:39. Last modified: October 26th 2006 20:12

Where did he get that vernacular?

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Categories: Liberals & locals

El Barça, Franco’s favourite team?

Posted: January 2nd 2005 16:04. Last modified: May 21st 2009 21:48

There is no statistical evidence for claims that the Franco government worked for Real Madrid and against Barça.

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Categories: Ball-playing, Les bourgeois, Liberals & locals

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Barcelona

  • 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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