I bumped into El Gran Picasso in a bar down south and thought stories of his epic exploits in Vegas must have been exaggerated, but no. Star juggler Dick Franco recalls the guys–principally Europe-based–who showed him the way: One of the first was El Gran Picasso, who I met in November 1974 as he was…
I think you can still use the following Dutch rhyme: Allah is groot en Allah is machtig, Allah heeft een lul van één meter tachtig. … as long as it is accompanied by the following English translation, to be pronounced with the London glottalstoppery of the gentleman with whom I spent a year in a…
I’m distinctly uneasy at the prospect of Catalonia being defined in a new statute of autonomy as a nation. The reason for this is very simple: I feel my chances of being allowed to be my own sweet n sour libertarian self are infinitely greater in the state sketched by JFK in his 1958 pamphlet,…
I don’t know when cardiopulmonary resuscitation was first performed, but here’s a 1753 citation by Benito Jerónimo Feijoo (Cartas eruditas y curiosas) from the London news para in the Madrid Gazette of 1753/4/17 of something that was apparently new to Spain: It was believed that a man who had suffocated on the fumes produced by…
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