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Gibbon, Chapter XIII
reading_gibbon: Chapter XIII: Diocletian
Another very long chapter, but an excellent read, full of incident and character. Diocletian comes over as one of the best emperors so far - a slave from Illyria who rose to the top, managed it well, and retired in time to enjoy his later years plating cabbages by the Adriatic. In the meantime ( Read more... )
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Linkspam for 15-12-2009
mizkit: I will never be Irish.
If you can't stand the cold, stay out of the kitchen...
(tags: ireland funny)
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Linkspam for 20-11-2009
sevenorora: The British "press" at its best?
Fair comment
(tags: eu Belgium)
qcjeph: Seriously, stop it
Couldn't agree more!
(tags: humour funny internet livejournal)
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Linkspam for 18-11-2009
"I am not a number! I am a free bland!":The Prisoner
I had been looking forward tothis, but it sounds like it was pretty terrible. One comment that caught my eye:
"A few days ago, I would have been willing to watch Sir Ian McKellen read the phonebook in a genial but vaguely menacing manner. Now I feel like I already have."
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Linkspam for 7-11-2009
Autism is not a dirty word
Charlotte Moore talks sense.
(tags: autism)
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Stephen Fry and Poland; and Communism
Poles, Politeness and Politics in the age of Twitter - The New Adventures of Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry apologises to Poland and has interesting thoughts on Twitter and democracy
(tags: internet)
What was communism? | open Democracy News Analysis
(tags: world)
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Gibbon VII
reading_gibbon: Chapter VII: The Year of Six Emperors, and Philip the Arab
On the younger Gordian:
Twenty-two acknowledged concubines, and a library of sixty-two thousand volumes, attested the variety of his inclinations, and from the productions which he left behind him, it appears that the former as well as the latter were designed ( Read more... )
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Linkspam for 13-10-2009
The Millions: The More They Stay the Same: William Manchesterâ™s The Death of a President
Fascinating review of an even more fascinating article on Manchester's book about what happened in Dallas on 22 November 1963
(tags: history)
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Linkspam for 30-7-2009
Genuine Sinn Fein community activist resigns himself to his fate - The Irish Times - Wed, Jul 29, 2009
Newton Emerson on top form
(tags: ireland)
McAllen, Texas and the high cost of health care : The New Yorker
It's not so much the funding mechanism, more the medical business culture.
(tags: ushealth)
Yes, Iceland can talk fish to Europe: David Cronin in ( Read more... )