But doesn’t dare answer the €1M all-or-nothing question (Which Nobel prize winner–Schweitzer, Röntgen, Koch or Planck–didn’t do his school-leaving exam?). I’m not much of an expert on these things, but Elisa looks completely German to me–hit the Zurück links for more views. (Via Margaret Marks, who I always imagine as being impeccably British in appearance,…
Carlos suggests that with the acceptance of the .cat domain for Catalan language and culture, the floodgates are now open for Brummie, Kölsch, Valencian…
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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