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A Book for Latin Lovers is becoming a Bestseller
When UK Publisher “Short Books” brought out the first copies of a book for Latin lovers it thought a merely 4000 copies would be well enough. Since then it has become a top seller with unexpected high demands for the little book and they had to print a few 100,000 copies end of last year also to satisfy demands in the US reported to be beyond 250,000 orders already. The book with the title “Amo, Amas, Amat and All That: How to become a Latin Lover” is a primer for the “world’s most influential language” and…
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Happy Birthday Marianne Faithful
Happy Birthday Marianne, we say in broken English - before the poison. What a road you’ve walked and what a voice. Good luck, good health and we hope we hear many more songs from you…
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H. P. Lovecraft: Horror to the Holidays
We found an excellent picture montage for the song “The Carol of the old Ones” on YouTube. The “H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society” has more information on the song including the lyrics and…
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RIP: James Brown
One of the greatest 20th century musicians is gone. James Brown, the “Godfather of Soul” died last night at Emory Crawford Long Hospital in Atlanta after being admitted there on Saturday for treatment of severe pneumonia, his manager, Frank Copsidas, said. With his frenetic singing style and rhythms the “hardest working man in show business” made funk popular to a broad audience and influenced a whole new generation of black music. His live was like a roller coster ride…
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Video: Yes Minister DVDs
Some call it the best British comedy ever made or a “crash course in Contemporary Political Studies”. While their are many more great British sitcoms like…
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Movie: Yellow Submarine online
The Beatles movie “Yellow Submarine” is still an outstanding piece of art after more then 30 years. Those who have never seen it, can now also watch it online. Available in full length at…
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RIP: Joseph Barbera
Thanks for Tom and Jerry, the Flintstones, the Jetsons, Yogi Bear and all your other work that made us laugh so many times.
Yabba dabba doo!
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Photograpy: Jorn Olsen’s cloud pictures
As a short continuation from our “cloud spotting” story we wanted to point you to Jorn Olsen’s impressive photos of so called “Mammatus clouds”…
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Winter: Ice hotels around the world
Since 17 years now a temporary hotel is build from ice every winter in Sweden. The ICEHOTEL is situated in the village Jukkasjärvi, 200 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle in Sweden. It started off with an Igloo and developed into a hotel with more than 60 rooms and suites each different from the other. With the exception of the beds, the entire hotel is made completely out of ice blocks - even the glasses in the bar are made of ice. The ice is made from water…
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Art: Manhole covers in Japan
We got interested when we saw the great selection of Japanese manhole covers from Flickr streams by Haha.nu…
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