Hypo Real State
6 Oct 2008 5:56pm GMT Spelled-out proof that Expansión, La Vanguardia and various other established Spanish newspapers’ international financial experts may actually know f-all about their subject.
Don’t crap here, we’re full already
6 Oct 2008 11:08am GMT I’ve often flippantly wondered whether the taboo on excretion at holy sites so thoroughly documented by Michael Gilleland is the origin of the old joke about the antiquarian who locks his shop during absences to prevent folks depositing even more junk. Here’s Melchor de Santa Cruz de Dueñas’ take (Floresta española, 1574) on Mark 4:25 [...]
Italian elite regiment forced to climb Alps carrying bicycles and machine guns
6 Oct 2008 5:53am GMT I know something of Belgian military bicycling bands. Here from 1909 is another photogenic but doomed military enterprise: Keep taking the drugs, Riccardo. The photo is from the November 1909 edition of Por esos mundos, which concluded that the French could beat the Germans, that the British had successively reformed their military following lessons learned in [...]
Coffin Joe vs Vicky Christina Barcelona
5 Oct 2008 6:41pm GMT Tommy Hilfiger Barcelona With a Lesbian Scene Featuring Penelope and Scarlett, as I think someone called it, got $3 million cash and substantial help in kind from local and regional government on the grounds that it would encourage people to study Catalan identity and then work in museums. Encarnação do Demônio credits unspecified assistance [...]
Multi-lingual, multi-cultural slow-change act
5 Oct 2008 11:57am GMT Gerard Sety, via Raffaele de Ritis: