

The marble floor in the Great Synagogue of Florence
It's not half bad...


It's not half bad...
En dokumentar fra National Geographic om udsætning af ulve i Yellow Stone naturpark.
Slik jeg forstår det, er (Ursus arctos arctos) en sjenert bjørn. Jeg er dansk, så jeg vet ikke engang om det er vanlig. Hva bør du gjøre hvis din Volvo 240 GL går tom for bensin i Nord-Norge og det banker en bjørn utenfor? Har du prøvd det?
WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk features Tom in episode 173. 'Hitler, Sparta, and the Roman Empire'.
If you are starved for content, this is definitely worth a listen.
What they talk about in the opening, sounds to me like some kind of defensive warfare strategy. Anyway, very interesting.
Picon is a French bitter that is often drunk mixed with lager or wheat beer in its country of origin. It was created in 1830 but I don't know how popular it actually is.
Perhaps the story could be interwoven with the 1750 London earthquake, five years earlier.
I want to apologize for having found most of this information on Wikipedia.
Anyway, the epicenter of the 1755 Lisbon event was 200 km west-southwest of Cape St. Vincent (the southwesternmost point of Portugal and of mainland Europe) when it launched a tsunami towards the Portuguese coast.
Estimates place the death toll in Lisbon around 30,000–40,000. Apparently, it was widely discussed and dwelt upon by European Enlightenment philosophers. It is also thought to have led to the birth of modern seismology.
I know there were earthquakes/tsunamis
affecting Portugal before, and after 1755, but do you think that these events have shaped European history in any particular way?
I don't know of any books dedicated specifically
to this catastrophe though.
Any thoughts?