Europe
My Italian Fun
Despite my posts appearing daily for two weeks, I have really been away from the internet and in Italy. I am now catching up on all the glorious comments from WU-vies and the posts of Alex and Chuck (*sniffle*). If you would like, for some bizarre reason, to learn what I did in Rome and Pisa and elsewhere, I have written up a trip report.Here is a picture of some elderly Italian ruins, one organic.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jul 01, 2017 -
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Category: Paul, Europe
The Empire of the Sahara
In June 1903 a French sugar millionaire, one Jacques Lebaudy, a dapper little man with a sharp nose and a shrill high-pitched voice who was said to have a personal fortune of some pounds 3m, recruited a dozen Breton sailors and landed them on the coast of Spanish Morocco, commanding them to go forth and establish an empire. Lebaudy then informed the French authorities that he was henceforth to be addressed as Jacques I, Najin-al-Den, Emperor of the Sahara, Commander of the Faithful, King of Tarfaia, Duke of Arleuf and Prince of Chal-Huin.
Full account here, including his inglorious death.
Wikipedia entry here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri May 12, 2017 -
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Category: Bombast, Bloviation and Pretentiousness, Dictators, Tyrants and Other Harsh Rulers, Eccentrics, 1900s, Africa, Europe
The Whittlesea Straw Bear
Official site here.
Wikipedia page here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jan 11, 2017 -
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Category: Foreign Customs, Europe, Fictional Monsters
Wonderful Ching-Ching
Additional images and full PDF download here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 09, 2017 -
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Category: Stereotypes and Cliches, Books, Asia, Europe, Nineteenth Century
Miss Europe
Here is why the European Union is falling apart! They seem to have abandoned the Miss Europe contest in 2006.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 03, 2017 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Europe
Bosch Parade
Explanation here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Dec 04, 2016 -
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Category: Parades and Festivals, Surrealism, Europe
Throwing the Hood
Full story here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 29, 2016 -
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Category: Foreign Customs, Headgear, Europe
Antonio De Soto Major
We tend to think we have some eccentric politicians today, like the UK's Boris Johnson or, ahem, a certain President-elect. But really, the past had the present beat hollow, and we are proved to be relatively colorless today by comparison.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Nov 10, 2016 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Politics, Europe, Nineteenth Century
The Great Scottish Bingo Panic of 1958
Original text here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 02, 2016 -
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Category: 1950s, Gambling, Casinos, Lotteries and Other Games of Chance, Europe, Moral Panics and Public Hysteria
A Minute of Dance Per Day
There is just as much of this as you can take--and possibly more than you can take--at her page:More in extended >>
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 24, 2016 -
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Category: Avant Garde, Performance Art, Europe
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