I used to make music with Leon and Jurgen (2003), and that rather nice sceptre was promised to me one evening by Hennie the painter. Henk (1982) played a mean snare-drum and is greatly missed; I think I would also be dead by now if that life had continued.
At least in Catalonia you’re still allowed to run a private school in your language of choice. Algeria’s jefe just removed that right from those who chose to educate their children in French. Let’s hope his gastric ulcer makes a swift return.
Mark Liberman wonders whether Cinderella slipped two dead squirrels round her tootsy-toes that night, while Chris Waigl does not. I think glass is a reasonable interpretation, although it may not have been the material used. DH Green (Language and History in the Early Germanic World) notes that both Pliny and Tacitus used glaesum/glesum to refer…
Mark Liberman wonders whether Cinderella slipped two dead squirrels round her tootsy-toes that night, while Chris Waigl does not. I think glass is a reasonable interpretation, although it may not have been the material used. DH Green (Language and History in the Early Germanic World) notes that both Pliny and Tacitus used glaesum/glesum to refer…
Zara’s had to withdraw this stuff (via Nihil Obstat) to avoid a new cartoon affair. I hope no one will mind my telling you that it used to be possible to sleep in Cologne cathedral.
Spain is to be represented in Eurovision by Las Ketchup, three daughters of Cordoban flamenco singer El Tomate. Their number is called Blody Mary–at least by El Diario Montanés; Spanish TV describes it as “a perfect cocktail which combines [a] smooth and elegant melody” with “the happiness and colour of the group”.
If QEI didn’t like Catholics, then in harsher economic times she wasn’t too keen either on black people, many of whom also came from Spain, with, for example, Catherine of Aragon. Here‘s her deportation order. It’s not clear where they ended up. The site is interesting and includes the usual conjectures about the origins of…
Here‘s what QEI had proclaimed: The King of Spaine, for furthering of other intentions against Englande, has dealt with Cardinal Allen and Father Persons to gather together with great labour uppon his charges a multitude of dissolute youthes to begin this seminary of Valladolid and others in Spaine. The Royal Scots College in Salamanca is…