Capt C. killed 2 bucks and 2 buffaloe, I also killed one buffaloe which proved to be the best meat, it was in tolerable order; we saved the best of the meat, and from the cow I killed we saved the necessary materials for making what our wrighthand cook Charbono calls the boudin blanc, and [...]
The absolute neutrality of Switzerland as a political principle is generally dated from the year 1674, when the Federal Diet declared that the Confederation, as a body, would regard itself as a neutral state and intervene on neither side in the war which had just broken out.
Edgar Bonjour, Swiss Neutrality, Its History and Meaning
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The people? They are the dust you draw your circles in. THOSE are the people! Sicilians are hopeless. I mean exactly that! Nothing changes here… EVER!”
- Abbot Manfredi, in The Sicilian (1987)
Buenos Aires - As I mentioned the other day, I found myself walking around Plaza Sicilia, on the chance of sighting a Statue of [...]
How was my weekend? Meh. The mehness of it is indescribable. Just one big, fat meh. If you are an old-media kind of reader, “meh” won’t mean a whole lot to you. The word has appeared in the national press three times in the past year. If you gain new vocabulary from conversation, it is [...]
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
- Horace Walpole
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