Tag archive for women (RSS)

Venus de Milo tribute in Villanueva y Geltrú

Posted: March 9th 2009 10:41. Last modified: September 19th 2009 14:00

And what to do when those boring old marble columns get in the way of your new staircase.

Tags: Aphrodite, beach, Catalonia, cows, helios, horses, Milos, Pasiphaë, pigeons, sculpture, Tarragona, turtles, Venus de Milo, Vilanova i Geltrú, women, zoophilia
Categories: (Pre-)Roman, Birds, Buildings, Cities, Flocks and work animals, Les bourgeois

Lousy deal for pregnant workers in Spain

Posted: February 5th 2009 14:32.

Check out this excellent piece from Mr Mead, whose views on (international) politics may suggest it’s time he was checked into the municipal dog pound, but whose social reporting is often very good.

Tags: employment, pregnancy, Spain, women
Categories: Les bourgeois, The family

Professor Blumenbach of Göttingen’s views on beauty in women

Posted: February 25th 2008 15:56. Last modified: February 27th 2009 12:53

T Bell, MD, Kalogynomia, or the laws of female beauty (1821):
Professor Blumenbach of Göttingen, whose profound science and perfect impartiality no one can doubt, does not hesitate to say, that the English are the most beautiful people on the globe. Nor is this wonderful when we consider that ENGLAND, perhaps exclusively, presents the combination [...]

Tags: Avignon, Cadiz, Europe, France, Guimanarez, Marseille, Portugal, Provence, Spain, women
Categories: Birds, Heathen philosophers, Liberals & locals

My 5% bookstore - new stuff

Spanish history

EL DISCURSO BOLCHEVIQUE: EL PARTI COMMUNISTE FRANÇAIS Y LA SEGUND A REPUBLICA ESPAÑOLA (1931-1936)
CEAMANOS LLORENS, ROBERTO
20.00€
LA HUELLA MORISCA: EL AL ANDALUS QUE LLEVAMOS DENTRO
RODRIGUEZ RAMOS, ANTONIO MANUEL
19.00€
CASTILLA Y EL MUNDO FEUDAL (3 TOMOS): HOMENAJE AL PROFESOR JULIO VALDEON
VAL VALDIVIESO, Mª ISABEL DELMARTINEZ SOPENA, PASCUAL
90.00€

Modern Spanish fiction

EL OFICINISTA (PREMIO BIBLIOTECA BREVE 2010)
SACCOMANO, GUILLERMO
18.00€
LA ENMILAGRADA
GOMEZ-ARCOS, AGUSTIN
18.95€
DIAS DE HIELO Y FUEGO
ORDOÑEZ, ROCIO
18.00€

Spanish classics

TRAGEDIA DE NUMANCIA
CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE
33.00€
LIFE IS A DREAM / LA VIDA ES SUEÑO (ED. BILINGÜE INGLES-ESPAÑOL)
CALDERON DE LA BARCA, PEDRO
16.64€
INGENIOSO HIDALGO DON QUIJOTE DE LA MANCHA (FACSIMIL) ESTUCHE 2 VOL.
CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE
39.90€

On this day

Barcelona

March 11 1573
The deputies order a proclamation calling for the heads [this is the only interpretation I can put on dotando las cabezas, but it is non-standard] of the many bandits infesting the province. These were without doubt members of the Narros and Cadells factions of which Cervantes talks in h...

Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

11 de març de 1918 Avui he passat per davant de la casa del carrer Nou –o del Progrés–, on vaig néixer. La seva façana alta i freda, sinistra, bruta de les escorrialles de la pluja, no m’ha suggerit res, el poder d’evocació de les seves parets m’ha fet un efecte absolutament nul. Cap record concret –si no és el [...]
11 de març de 1919 Havent dinat, trobo Alexandre Plana a la Biblioteca. M’agafa pel braç i em porta a la penya de l’Ateneu per antonomàsia, que és la coneguda també per la penya del doctor Borralleras. Baixem l’escala del primer pis, travessem la sala de premsa estrangera i entrem al local, tan baix de sostre, de la cèlebre tertúlia. Plana [...]