We turn to the book Origin of the slovenly words of José Calles Vales (Publishing house Libsa, 2002) to inform us about the origin of … KIOSK. m. Small building of wood, in which some bric-a-brac and press sell. It will not be necessary to remember that this is only the most common meaning in our time. Formerly a kiosk was one...
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Slovenly words (VII): KIOSK
Maps
There has died Arthur H. Robinson, the investigator who solved the so called problem of Greenland in the maps, typical of the projections of the geographer of the XVIth century Gerardus Mercator. The problem derives from the inability to project a sphere (the Earth) on a flat surface (a map) preserving simultaneously...
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Poisoned of body and soul
The university opposition to the Franco period in Madrid (1939-1970) The title of the book comes from a phrase pronounced by admiral Carrero Blanco in a speech in The Spanish Parliament (XXIst Century of Spain Publishers) the students who had faced the dictatorship had done it to establish a freedoms diet...
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Trip to the center of the Earth
The success of 20.000 leagues of submarine trip (Disney, 1954) was continued by that of The return to the world in 80 days (United Artists, 1956), rewarded with a óscar. This supposed the appearance of...
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Creation of the Reality and Means of Formation of Masses
Today I am glad of connecting an article proceeding from IMPOSSIBLY, a newspaper that not only is not periodic but, as its own name indicates, it has never existed it will not even exist. I believe that...
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Slovenly words (VI): 25 POUND
We recapture the book Origin of the slovenly words of José Calles Vales (Publishing house Libsa, 2002) to throw a glance to a very famous word today in the network … 25 POUND. f. Measurement of weight, the fourth part...
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The Route of the Silk (IV): Warriors of Xian
On Thursday the exhibition was inaugurated in Madrid and this morning (I write this the night from Friday until Saturday) at about one o'clock at midday I have presented before myself in the Center of Art...
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They chase me!
I am living through a distressing and traumatic experience, which is ending in a persecutory paranoia. This evening I have thrown a glance to the directions IP of the people who enters in Days of the future past....
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Crisis and reinvention of the contemporary city
Archipelago nº 62 is Always pleasant to verify that a new number of the magazine Archipelago is in the street. In this case, for three reasons: the first one, which is the best magazine of critical thought...
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