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[The war meaning WWII, in a list first published in 1995 by the TLS (introduction to it worth reading, I leave here a few highlights, with emphasis added). Three Women three Total :|] "A hundred books which have influenced Western public discourse since the Second World War" In 1986, a diverse group of writers and scholars came together to try to assist independent East European writers and publishers both at home and in exile. (...) It was envisaged that support would take two forms: first, to ensure publication in the original languages, and second, to encourage more translations . One of the basic tenets of this initiative, which came to be known as the Central and East European Publishing Project (CEEPP), was that the geopolitical division of Europe the Iron Curtain was then still very much a reality had interrupted the normal and healthy flow not just of people but also of books and ideas. Its aim, in the words of Ralf Dahrendorf, was to foster a "common market of...

Images of books on shelves are seen projected on the walls of the Tower of David in Jerusalem's Old City - part of a show called "Or Shalem, Jerusalem Lights the Night", staged by a group called Skertzò on October 7, 2008. The Tower of David is a massive citadel that, over the centuries, has served as a fortress, military barracks and cannon position. These days, the Tower serves as a popular tourist site. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) Boston.com , graças aos linques da Georgie :)

Yep, as listas, os topes... Social questions or political changes: State of the Nation novels Part One (lotsa Dickens...) Part Two (Machado de Assis, no less) Part Three (N to W shows the most geographically diverse set, methinks) Sense of self, and self in a group: Family & Self novels Part One (lotsa women writers) Part Two (yep, women know best :) Part Three (France, India, Spain, Russia... and Adrian Mole :) Every comic, it is said, wants to play Hamlet: Comedy , which is not the same as humour Part One (Don Quixote, of course :) Part Two (Finnegans Wake!...) Part Three (yessss) Saki : The Westminster Alice (1902) This political parody uses Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland to critique the British government. As enthusiasm for the Boer war declined, questions were being asked about how it was handled. And in the episode "Alice goes to Lamberth", even the Church of England is criticised. It was first published in the Westminster Gazette in collaboration...

And a review from Gourmet magazine :9

The Obama Inauguration: Lego-Style Obama fever has officially hit Legoland. The Carlsbad, CA, park has modified its U.S. Capitol model to illustrate the historic Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama. The display opens to the public tomorrow, Jan. 16, and will stay on through Memorial Day. Photos by Christopher Victorio. The SF weekly

Conversor de Português actual em Português do Futuro. Enfim...

additional info: rabbits were almost universally known as coneys until some jerkwad puritan thought the pronunciation (CUNNY) was too dirty. Carl Linneaus then gave them permission to call the thing a rabbit instead. At the same time, asses became donkeys , cocks became roosters , and the titmouse became the mammary-bird . All creatures [great and small]

Autor: Daniel Estulin Durão Barroso, José Sócrates, Francisco Pinto Balsemão, António Guterres, Santana Lopes, Vítor Constâncio são alguns dos nomes portugueses que integram o clube Bilderberg Por detrás de portas fechadas… …e passando os guardas armados, chega-nos a verdadeira história da poderosa elite mundial e dos seus planos secretos para o SEU futuro… Entre num mundo de intrigas e secretismo e passe a saber o que nunca antes foi revelado! Desde que se reuniram pela primeira vez no Hotel Bilderberg, em 1954, os homens mais poderosos do mundo cumprem anualmente este ritual e durante um fim-de-semana planeiam os destinos da Humanidade, estejam eles relacionados com questões económicas e políticas ou com relações internacionais. Intitularam-se o Clube Bilderberg e este é constituído por nomes tão sonantes quanto Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Paul Wolfowitz, Henry Kissinger, David Rockefeller, entre outros. Mais de 50 encontros foram realizados, mas a imprensa nunca teve...

The art of stand-up has one of the longest apprenticeships. (“It’s not fine art,” George Carlin liked to say. “But it is an art. It is a vulgar art.”) The careers of comedians can take decades just to gain momentum. Stand-ups need stage time to develop; the best among them find their voices in conversation with the work of other comedians. Carlin, inspired by the success of Danny Kaye , moved at a steady clip. He had already done radio and TV and movies by the time he landed a gig at the Frontier Hotel in Vegas in 1967, earning $12,500 a week. Wearing a suit, he entertained businessmen and their wives with impressions and standard straight-man jokes. But he was a true comic spirit, hard-wired to upend any kind of complacency, and having been stirred up by Lenny Bruce , he was no longer able to restrain his angrier self. He got himself suspended for using the word “ass,” then cursed again and got fired, which ended his run as a “people pleaser.” Carlin created his own rules for the ne...

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