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Tag: Dioscorides

Assaulted by a pine processionary caterpillar!

With chunks of Dioscorides and Andrés Laguna, including the wonderful story of what happened when an impotent bridegroom and a constipated friar involuntarily swapped medicines.

Pig / lion / monkey / child wine

A Portuguese menagerie of sozzledness.

An unusual case of risus sardonicus

Is Mr Barbecue Bunny’s sardonic grin pre- or post-mortem?

Drawing by <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9s_Laguna'>Andrés (de) Laguna de Segovia</a> of a candidate for the Sardinian laughing plant in <a href='http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA250&id=l8I9qBq-PNYC'>a 1651 Valencian edition of Dioscorides</a>.

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  • 2006
    • Walking Kennedy to Manhattan
  • 2005
    • More churchy coppers
    • Now showing
    • Ratzinger’s uniform fetish
    • Hurricane ETA
  • 2004
    • Napoleon couldn’t write French
    • Bete a otro lugar
    • Aragonese expansionism
    • Antipodean Quixote
    • Mumbling in the moss, and other pleasant distractions
    • India-Morocco talks
    • Host fukc-up
    • Baldie, climbing high
    • Good word
    • Socialists preaching inequality
    • Adoration of the morons
    • Cracking up
    • Royal Academy of History website
    • BritishExpat.com
    • One more reason to learn Dutch
  • 2003
    • 8 reasons why the Moroccan octopus industry hasn’t got a leg to stand on, as it were
    • Hoe voorkom je bosbranden?
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