Mediterranean Sea – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

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.

<a href='http://www.amazon.com/Birchstone-Studios-Snot-A-Mug-Egg-Separator/dp/B0000CFGP6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1312889158&sr=8-1'>Birchstone Studios Snot-A-Mug Egg Separator</a> (via comments)

Ernst Jünger and the Libyan revolution

Chunks of Heliopolis and Eumeswil dealing with smartphones, language and power meet up with the Gaddafis.

Arthur Ditchfield, The Casbah and the Ravine of the Centaur, Algiers (1873), at the <a href='http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O125738/oil-painting-the-casbah-and-the-ravine/'>V&A</a>

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>.

Is the anglocabrón longing for sun, sangria and sex a new phenomenon?

Blasco Ibáñez says that actually we have always thought “at all hours of the Mediterranean rim.”

Specs on the beach

I do hate to be beside the seaside, unless it’s raining.

“Palermo’s history is marked by the multitude of conquerors and subsequent cultures that settled there”

Cruise companies don’t appear to regard original copy as an important differentiating factor.

Revisionist history of 17th century Mediterranean trade

Molly Greene describes the complex anarchy that existed between the collapse of the Mediterranean powers and the entry of northern fleets.

“Spanish climatological records reveal that in the Cold Triangle [ie Teruel, Molina de Aragón and Calamocha] there have been numerous episodes … with temperatures below -25ºC at less than 200km from the mild Mediterranean as the crow flies. [This is one demonstration of the fact] that Spain has climates, not a climate.” (Aupí, Guía del…

Are the Spanish media really obsessed with Israel?

John Chappell links to an old piece from the Stephen Roth Institute in Tel Aviv which claims among other things that “reports about Israel occupy a disproportionate amount of international space in the Spanish media”. If their frame of reference is countries in a similar situation to Spain and and with a similar relationship to…

Misdeed and identity in the Indian Ocean

La Vanguardia, 2008/4/21: “Piratas somalíes secuestran un atunero vasco. El ‘Playa de Bakio’ lleva 26 tripulantes, trece africanos, ocho gallegos y cinco vascos. Anoche, una fragata española acudía desde el mar Rojo a auxiliar al barco.” Victims from north of the Mediterranean are dissimilated on the basis of their autonomous community, while victims from the…

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