Rodrigo and Blas Nieto have had their horses translate their website: Along the years the selective selection carried out adquiring black products with the line and origins of Yeguada Militar, José Luis de la Escalera y Bocado, the cattle raising takes an upward line thanks to those good children and daughters that are born annually…
The Philadelphia Orchestra’s new organ sounds wonderful: It has 6,938 pipes, ranging from pencil-size to more than 40 feet, deployed in 125 ranks. In a demonstration and performance for the press, Jeffrey Brillhart, an organist from Bryn Mawr, Pa., coaxed out a high, thin, almost inaudible piping that was seemingly adrift in the hall (like…
It would be rather nice for someone I know if there were a translation into one of the Romance dialects of Under der linden, but I don’t think there is, and I’m not that far. People probably weren’t as sensitive to lime pollen back then. (I do like Craig E Bertolet’s jealous husband translation, although…
I told you that was his name. (I fear some people are taking the site seriously, although Big Fat Hairy Dave probably isn’t among them–check his profile.)
Flemish jurisprudence dealing with relationships between potato coops and their tax-mitigating members. One new expression: tegensprekelijk debat, from the French débat contradictoire of réunion contradictoire, meaning basically (and slightly bizarrely to my mind) a meeting or hearing at which several or all parties are present. Due to some aspect of legal history with which I…
There are times when I, too, feel hairachy. (If GenCat.net really “is an example of a radical redefinition of the e-Government portal concept, the first real implementation of Web 2.0 philosophy in Public Administration, fully backed by an explicit policy-driven political strategy focused on a personalized and integrated citizen-centric approach”, how come a centric citizen…
Struggling with weariness and reading bits of Ricardo Palma’s Tradiciones peruanas (1883). There was no sugar cane in Peru at the time of its conquest, he writes, and the first plantations were not established until 1570. The first Peruvian refiner suffered from the abundance and cheapness of Mexican sugar until he hit upon the smart…