December 2011
43 posts
“You know, the more I see of women, the more I think that there ought to be a...”
– Bertie Wooster getting flummoxed by the ladies in PGW’s The Code of the Woosters (via wwnorton)
Archaeological News: Rare Cuneiform Script Found... →
archaeologicalnews:
Excavations among what many scholars consider to be the world’s oldest monumental buildings on the island of Malta continue to unveil surprises and raise new questions about the significance of these megalithic structures and the people who built them. Not least is the latest find - a small…
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“A pig was on Thursday, during the frost, seen sailing down the Thames […]...”
– Liverpool Mercury etc (Liverpool, England), Friday, January 28, 1814; Issue 135.
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“In a makeshift parade ground in a corner of Baghdad airport, time was called on...”
– US exit from Iraq: ‘this is not a withdrawal, this is an act on a stage’
Iraqi people greet pullout ceremony with ambivalence mixed with concern over an uncertain future
(via guardian) 