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Danish cows entertained by cellists
Further to this earlier posting about the musical tastes of cows, incoming from Cousin David, in the form of a photo of cows being entertained by cellists: But where was this happening? Image googling...
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Parking baton
Here: The Estonian National Opera greets people in a very unusual manner, at least those who have decided to drive to their chosen event. The parking lot barriers have been converted to resemble a...
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Lots of people watch the FA Cup Final
Today I watched the FA Cup Final on television, in which Leicester City defeated Chelsea by the momentous margin of one-nil. The one was good, though. But the reason I watched it was because it had a...
View ArticleMcCloskey summarised by Scheidel
I have recently been reading Escape From Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity by Walter Scheidel. Scheidel himself summarises the arguments in this book in this piece. Better yet,...
View ArticleToday Patrick and I had another conversation about World War One
We had already decided that our chat today would be about what kicked off World War One. However, as part of my homework for this, I listened again to this earlier conversation we recorded about World...
View ArticleAnton Howes on how printing got started
Anton Howes has been asking himself Why Didn’t the Ottomans Print More? In the course of sketching an answer, he says interesting things about how printing did get started in Europe: When we think of...
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Two photos of Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao
Most internetted photos of Bilbao’s Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Gehry, look like this: Which I found here. But the fact that almost all the internetted photos of this building look like that...
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Brexit didn’t stop London’s cranes
While I’m on the subject of postings past, here is one from the old blog from exactly five years ago, featuring a crane cluster photo, which I have also just transferred to here. Brexit was then being...
View ArticleThe League of Nations builds itself a custom-built headquarters in Geneva
I have been reading The Mighty Continent by John Terraine, which is a history of Europe from 1900 to the 1970s when it was published, being a spin-off book from a TV show. On page 145 of my 1974...
View ArticleHello again
After writing the previous posting here, about how BMNB dot come is now being wound down, from a daily to an occasional blog, I was determined that my next piece of bloggage would be for Samizdata, and...
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