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Looking at the contours to me…today…seems that we’re going into the belly of a snake and a back-fanged snake at that; four back teeth, very tall and hard.
Phil Liggett
Tour de France 2014 Stage 17
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Source: “His Five Wives” part 2, Physical Culture, Volume XXXV, February 1916
“…You see, I had to avoid all negative suggestions; I mustn’t lead him to think that Gwendolyn was less interesting. I must lead him to think that I was more interesting.”
“And how did you do it?”
“I became a suffragette.”
“What?”
“Don’t you see that that’s the newest way for a woman to make herself interesting; to be thrilling and romantic, and bold and new, and dangerous and startling?”
“But, Sister, you mean you did that deliberately?”
“It was genuine to a certain extent, even while it was deliberate. Ralph was letting Gwendolyn take him out in her automobile; so I made up my mind. It was only a few days before the first parade, which was organized here in New York, and seemed so very bold that it made everybody shiver. I got myself a beautiful white costume with a yellow sash over my shoulder; and so I broached the subject to my husband. You perceive that I was not broaching it only intellectually, but sensuously. It was not merely that I had got hold of a new idea—he might have though the idea was a crazy one, and been irritated about it; it was that I appeared before him in a new and striking guise, and gave him a brand new thrill. He didn’t realize, of course, how much it was my appearance that stirred him, and how little it was my arguments.”
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I found this marvellous thingy today by chance.
OmnesViae: Roman RouteplannerA route planner with all main roads and cities of the Roman Empire, based on the Tabula Peutingeriana and the Itinerarium Antonini.
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See also: More Roman mapping at vici.org |
My route
Paul Sherwin peddling a bogus meaning of the word lès in Saint-Saturnin-lès-Apt in the Tour de France | → | Apt | → | Apta Julia | → | Via Domitia | → | Roman roads | → | Tabula Peutingeriana | → | Omnes Viae |
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See also: Wikipedia: Mallakhamba
I think this might be the original source for these videos that have been vampirised far and wide across the ever-greedy clickosphere. Why not give the originator of the content some love?
It’s very impressive, but I’d hate to see it go wrong!
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Click the link to see the maps and download links. The map tiles can be slow to load.
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In the never-ending bitterness between มาดามพุชชี่ Madame Pushy and เจ๊เมี่ยง Jae Miang, Pushy taunts him by dangling a handsome gym bunny in front of him only to cruelly tear him away. As Miang is flirting with this guy, apparently also from the north (so classy Miang has a hicksville past?), he tells him he has น้ำพริกหนุ่ม Nám Prík Nùm (roast chilli dip, a northern speciality) at home and says he’d just like to dip into some nám príḳ…nùm, the joke being that หนุ่ม nùm also means “teenager, young man”. According to Miang it’s also good eaten with ไส้อั่ว Sâi Aw-a (spicy sausage).
Weirdly, in this scene, Miang also consistently calls the guy 오빠 oppa, the Korean word a woman would use for her elder brother, rather than พี่ pîi (elder sibling), พี่ใหญ่ pîi yài (big brother/sister) or โก go: (elder brother > Hainanese).
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Ever heard of it? It’s a little island near Venice (now uninhabited) that’s had an unusual history and has attracted a lot of spooky legends. Plague victims were sent there, it has been used as a quarantine station and in the 1920s a mental asylum was built there. It is said that the soil is 50% human ash since so many victims of the black death were burnt there. In fact, there are plague pits on the island, but 50% is a tiny bit fanciful. Not quite as fanciful as the story of the butcher psychiatrist who, after going mad from guilt over his torturing ways, threw himself from the tower only to survive and be strangled by a ghostly mist. Sounds like the perfect place to build a luxury hotel, no? Well, Italy is auctioning off a 99 year lease on the island to help pay off government debt so that seems to be where it’s headed. Not that all the locals are happy about it—Poveglia per tutti are asking people for donations to make a bid to keep the island open to the public.
Any abandoned, decaying mental asylum is bound to be a magnet to photographers and yes, there are some great photos on Flickr.
See also: Wikipedia Google Maps
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AM - 30/04/2014: Budget crisis talk a myth, economist warns
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I can’t help feeling all the “talking down” of the economy that the government’s doing will backfire sooner or later. The full interview is also available from the link at left and will take a whole 6 minutes of your time.