That seems to presuppose that the currency should reflect specifically the country's history, rather than other aspects of the country.
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That seems to presuppose that the currency should reflect specifically the country's history, rather than other aspects of the country.
The same question was in the Guardian weekend quiz a few weeks ago!
No, jackdaws.
Two jackdaws tussling on the ground, with wings outstretched and claws in one another's faces.
Jackdaw negotiations.
Just about fits both #BirdOfTheDay themes: #WingsOpenNotFlying, #Black&White.
#birds
Spooky trees silhouetted against a starry sky (and probably Jupiter).
Owl safari.
All the Saramago I've read (including Blindness) has been hard work, but absolutely worth it.
And ... they've now changed it to Mary Beard!
For the carrier, small and light enough to keep on your lap while waiting at the vet's is important (ground level is typically more stressful for them).
One Hundred Poems from the Chinese -- Kenneth Rexroth; Forest of Noise -- Mosab Abu Toha; Begin Again -- Grace Paley.
And Pontefract is "pomfrit". Or possibly "throat wobbler mangrove".
(Gifco, Travel Arrangements.)
A few months after the death of our teenage daughter, we left her -- as we thought -- safely buried in St Anne's churchyard, Barnes, and bought a house in Peckham.
M John Harrison winning the opening sentence.
Peregrine Falcon flying low with Teal and Wigeon on the water in the background
Amazing moment at RSPB Greylake yesterday when this stunning Peregrine Falcon shot low across the water! 😍😊
This is the fastest animal on earth!🐦
#BIrds 🪶
The Silver Thorn — Hugh Walpole
Bannmeilen — Anne Weber
The Sad Part Was — Prabda Yoon, tr. Mui Poopoksakul
Backwater — Dorothy M. Richardson
Elizabeth Finch — Julian Barnes
Die Geschichte des verlorenen Kindes — Elena Ferrante, tr. Karin Krieger
Cover of volume 1 of Dorothy Richardon's Pilgrimage
I finished 6 books this month, all of which fit more or less into my month's theme of favourite writers, four by women/POC, and two in German. Portuguese might restart in March.
chinese-poems.com/blog/?p=2994
That makes him 57, by my reckoning!
Labour Party is full of swotty boys using pantomimes of reaction to appease the unquiet ghosts of their semi imaginary blue collar granddads
I don't know what the opposite of nominative determinism is. But Matt Goodwin does.
Gorton and Denton by-election result:
GRN: 40.7% (+27.5)
REF: 28.7% (+14.7)
LAB: 25.4% (-25.3)
CON: 1.9% (-6.0)
LDEM: 1.8% (-2.1)
Green GAIN from Labour.
Learning a second language can be hard. Signing up for Pre-K and 3-K is easy.
Go to myschools.nyc to apply today. Deadline is tomorrow at midnight!
The rat experienced both these events. The rat is no longer alive (I agree it's not perfectly expressed in the comic, but that's clearly the meaning).
Keep going after you cross the International Date Line, and approach from the east.
Nur Pointed Roofs wurde übersetzt, von Clara Munk als Die Schatten der Giebel.
It's also Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy (probably many others, but I suspect KSR is a likely influence).
Cheeringly for me, I've read other books by four of these (Bazyar, Énard, Genberg, Kehlmann); I need to try Ana Paula Maia's in the original!
Have you read the article?
Personally attacked by the gulls.
“Ornithological taxonomy is second nature to us birders, so it’s easy to forget that the average person probably only knows the scientific names of a handful of garden birds.” “And gulls, of course.” “Of course.” Even when they’re trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person’s familiarity with their field.
This is fun. Generate your own xkcd2501.
marshdeer.github.io/xkcd2501-gen...
I did earlier today, so I feel retrospectively validated!
Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.
