A comparative analysis of three key figures pertaining to a (generally) non-sexual, (mostly) non sportive activity of worldwide economic significance. The numbers are for the whole world.
They tell a rather positive, reassuring story, tw.
The Anglo-Saxon King Alfred, who is the only English King to bear the epithet "the Great", is one of only two Anglo-Saxon kings whose will has survived the ravages of time. He died in 899 AD.
I feel compelled to use the occasion of my 70,000th post on this board to remind you of the fact that the 896 would have been up for discussion in your post. U.N. Security Council Resolution 896 discussed the possible establishment of a peace force in Abchasia - in 1994, 30 years ago. It's a grippin...
The first democratic German constitution was passed 175 years ago today. Yes, that long ago. It was discussed and passed in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt am Main as a result of the 1848 revolution. It died when the then Prussian King refused to take the crown out of the hands of the people instead of...
Kloster Plankstetten was founded 895 years ago. They still exist, and specialise in hearty, low-yield, high taste, organic Bavarian specialties. And the beer... oh my.
Now I know shit about economics, so can judge neither his economics competence nor if his Nobel was well-deserved. But I did read his Thinking, Fast and Slow book, and found it to be extremeley convincing - the thought processes he describes (or their absence, supplanted time and again, by "heu...
And indeed, No. 2 (haha) has won. It was FC Carl Zeiss Jena against, well, SV Babelsberg 03. The scorer, forward Elias Löder, already won a proper "Goal of the Month", a technically perfect overhead kick against... well you know whom :shock: - against Hertha, even if it was only against th...
I like the stiff-upper-lip way with which Wikipedia describes this abomination, "... resulting in a different nutritional and flavor profile". Different indeed. Did I mention I love Glasgow? I've been there three times only, in the 80s and the oughts, and only for a few days each, but I lo...
Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini died yesterday, at 82. Not a front-page event, but it gives me a little jab of pain - Pollini played three Mozart concertos with the Berlin Philharmonic when I first visited a proper concert, probably around 1980. It was an overwhelming experience, and it started my ...
I am sad to inform you that we lost one post when a double entry for 832 (the entries being postes only a minute apart) whnt unnotices. So to re-align the thread I feel compelled to tell you that a) in the year 892, the German city of Bonn, on the middle Rhine was sacked by Vikings attacking from up...