August 2010
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August Day Song - Bebel Gilberto (King Britt...
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Had a great holiday, turned thirty, got a tan. What did I miss here?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August
This month was originally named Sextilis in Latin, because it was the sixth month in the original ten-month Roman calendar under Romulus in 753 BC, when March was the first month of the year. About 700 BC it became the eighth month when January and February were added to the year before March by King Numa Pompilius, who also gave it 29 days. Julius Caesar added two days when he created the...
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“No te conoce el toro ni la higuera,
ni caballos ni hormigas de tu casa.
No te...”
– Llanto por Ignacio Sanchez Mejias (1935) by Federico Garcia Lorca (arrested and assassinated by Francisco Franco’s Fronte Popular militia during the Spanish Civil War on 19 August 1936)
The bull does not know you, nor the fig tree, nor horses nor the ants in your own house. The boy does...
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This tumblr is now on holiday
Normal posting will resume at the beginning of September. Hope you’re all having a wonderful summer. Take care!
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Sleeping is giving in... (stereogram fa il... →
A saperlo stavo sveglia pure io. Maledetta vita offline che interferisce con la vita online.
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“das Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz”
– “More than most other languages, German tends to string words together to form new vocabulary. All languages, including English, do this to some extent, but German really likes to create long words. As Mark Twain said, “Some German words are so long that they have a...
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no borders daily →
a travel tumblr everybody should follow
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