Organ-grinding tweets for December
Xmas &c.
Tag: christopher Columbus
The Singing Organ-Grinder’s tweets for October
More rubbish.
The true origins of an 18th century tomb inscription at Zennor, Penwith, Cornwall
“‘Tis glorious misery to be born a man,” generally taken to refer to a hen-pecked husband, is in fact a misquotation of verse by the 17th century Romford and London poet, Francis Quarles, dealing with human mortality.
Henry Fielding on who gives a fack where [Columbus] was born (answer: not [Columbus])
Past performance is no guide to future performance, my dears.
Why we can legitimately call ourselves Barcelonians
Muy bien hecho, Cristobál [sic] Colón / Navegaste’l mundo sin follón
Sin brújula, que tampoco es verdad, ma è ben cantato.
Columbus was a proto-Judenstaatler, says someone
But a joke I have just cobbled together suggests otherwise.
Mosquitoes, alcohol and violence
A Catalan children’s song remembered by Francesc Candel; early rave culture on Central America’s eastern seaboard.
Star Trek, the origins
Kalebeul’s investigation into Vosk and the Na’kuhl temporal conduit yields some surprising results.