Onion-Apollo and old chorizo moon fight it out in a stewpot-cosmos of bean-stars
Category: (Pre-)Roman
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Juvenal: Will you please … learn the colour of your own bread
Class consciousness didn’t commence in the bakeries of the Industrial Revolution.
Comments at ABC
On the discovery of perhaps Neolithic paintings of seals at Nerja in Málaga.
Revealed, the identity of the horny apparition in the story of St Benedict, the blackbird, and the nettles
A 19th century Roman historian says she’s from the Roman Merula (blackbird) clan.
Is it the fault of the Greeks that the Germans are the way they supposedly are?
I sense potential for reparations claims citing Aesop.
Breogán redux
Featuring Sophie Tucker’s “There’s Something Spanish In My Eyes”
Do Welsh expats incline to rain-drenched hills?
Nature vs nurture in the Italian Jones tribe.
Separating egg yolks from whites
Tülin Özen’s shell technique in Semih KaplanoÄŸlu’s Bal, comparison with the palm technique, brief speculation re historical usage of both, and a Moorish honey-cookie recipe.
Alectryon, the Ancient Greek model for our cuckold’s horns?
With a field study of the nymphomaniacs of Goa and brief notes on the early history of composite grafts.
The right and the wrong type of snow, according to Avicenna, Aristotle and Plutarch
With an excerpt from a plea for more state funding by the Bostonian Western Rail-road, in which we are given to understand that snow is not necessarily a bad thing.