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lobosolo

Zillions

Oct 08, 2005 14:34

[Can't resist passing on this little gem from today's GuardianDubya is in the Oval Office getting the daily sit-rep on Iraq. Rumsfeld says: "I have to tell you, Mr President, that yesterday three Brazilian soldiers were killed ( Read more... )

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_ruse October 8 2005, 14:47:58 UTC

Did you see the article by Neil Bartlett on Simeon Solomon? I want to go to Birmingham and see the exhibit quite badly now.

lobosolo October 8 2005, 15:40:56 UTC

Interesting article. You're close enough to Birmingham that you shouldn't have any trouble getting to see the exhibition.

My favourite artist of that ilk is Henry Scott Tuke.

_ruse October 8 2005, 15:43:07 UTC

I've seen some of Tuke's stuff. Yeah, a short trip to Birmingham is certainly in order. If anything, I can call it 'thesis research'.

shofarot October 13 2005, 22:26:04 UTC

Sounds like Reagan on his first state visit to Brazil where he addressed the locals in Spanish as the people of Ecuador.

lobosolo October 14 2005, 18:42:00 UTC

Wasn't he also on record as believing that Latin Americans spoke Latin? But maybe that's just one of those urban legends, like the claim that Dubya said "The trouble with the French is that they have no word for entrepreneur." It never happened, but it should have!