Foro de Hislibris

[Arturus]

Él sí que lo es

[Antigono el Tuerto]

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Un libro abierto es un cerebro que habla; cerrado, un amigo que espera; olvidado un alma que perdona; destruido, un corazón que llora.
Proverbio Hindú.

[Raskolnikov]

[Urogallo]

[sciurus]

Madre mía lo que me enseñó la tela hoy...viendo mis hijos el clan aparece la cantante Lucrecia con una de sus canciones que clama a Quevedo como espía en Venecia bajo peculio del Duque de Osuna..Voy a internet y me lo confirma. Vaya elemento. Quevedo el espía secreto
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Pensad como hombres de acción, actuad como hombres pensantes.

Thomas Mann

[momper]

¡Cómo se las gastaba el KGB!

The Jerusalem Post said the Soviet secret police last year secured the release of three kidnaped Soviet diplomats in Beirut by castrating a relative of a radical Lebanese Shia Muslim leader, sending him the severed organs and then shooting the relative in the head.
[...]
The newspaper quoted "observers in Jerusalem" as saying: "This is the way the Soviets operate. They do things--they don't talk. And this is the language Hezbollah understands".

Los Angeles Times, 7-1-1986
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¿Quién es Müller?

[momper]

Y cómo se las gastan los saudís... Stacy Herbert mencionaba en su programa el otro día el chantaje al que sometieron al gobierno de Blair: si no se daba carpetazo a una investigación sobre el soborno al príncipe Bandar bin Sultan para conseguirle contratos a la British Aerospace Systems (BAE), cesaría la cooperación en materia antiterrorista.

Blair, faced with Saudi threats to cut off cooperation on counterterrorism operations, personally intervened to scuttle a criminal investigation into billions of dollars in allegedly improper payments made by British Aerospace Systems (BAE) to obtain Saudi contracts... he and his advisers were genuinely worried that, if the Saudis followed through on their threats, it could lead to another "7/7".

"The threats to national and international security [are] very grave indeed and ... British lives on British streets would be at risk", the British ambassador to Riyadh warned the Serious Fraud Office.

The British media later reported that the payments had come from BAE as part of a secret agreement connected to an $80 billion military aircraft deal between London and Riyadh.

How Saudis Pressured the U.K.’s Blair Government (Newsweek, 29-7-2008)
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¿Quién es Müller?

[momper]

En 1920 se prohibió específicamente enviar niños por correo en EE. UU.

In the early years of Parcel Post service, before the U.S. Post Office implemented more specific regulations, people shipped all sorts of unusual things by mail — including babies and small children. However, it was neither a regular occurrence nor a routine aspect of the Parcel Post service for people to wrap up children, slap some stamps on them, and ship them cross-country — the few documented examples of children being sent through the mail were nearly all publicity stunts, instances of people who knew the postal workers in their area asking them to carry their babies a relatively short distance along their routes to some nearby relatives, or cases in which children were listed as ‘mail’ so they could travel on trains without the necessity for purchasing a ticket.

Mailing Children

Vernon O. Lytle, mail carrier on rural route No. 5, is the first man to accept and deliver under parcel post conditions a live baby. The baby, a boy weighing 10-3/4 pounds, just within the 11 pound weight limit, is the child of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Beagle of Glen Este. The boy was well wrapped and ready for “mailing” when the carrier received him to-day. Mr. Lytle delivered the boy safely at the address on the card attached, that of the boy’s grandmother, Mrs. Louis Beagle, who lives about a mile distant. The postage was fifteen cents and the parcel was insured for $50.
Times

Mrs. E. H. Staley of this city received her two-year-old nephew by parcel post to-day from his grandmother in Stratford, Okla., where he had been left for a visit three weeks ago.
The boy wore a tag about his neck showing it had cost 18 cents to send him through the mails. He was transported 25 miles by rural route before reaching the railroad. He rode with the mail clerks, shared his lunch with them and arrived here in good condition.
Times

Children may not be transported as parcel post, First Assistant Postmaster General Koons has ruled in passing upon two applications received at the Washington City Post Office for the transportation of children through the mails.
Mr. Koons said children did not come within the classification of harmless live animals which do not require food or water while in transit.
One of the applications received by the local Postmaster was from a 9-year-old girl, who entered the main Post Office and asked that she be sent to Kentucky.
Times
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¿Quién es Müller?

[Davout]

- Leo en un periódico que a Severo Ochoa le dieron el Nobel "por error". Es que los asturianos si ganamos algo es por error...

Por cierto, casualmente he grabado estos días la serie sobre su vida que han puesto en La2. Qué causalidad.
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LA PATRIE EN DANGER

[Urogallo]

Que Wrangel, igual que Marko Ramius, no era ruso, sino Lituano.

Concretamente, descendiente de uno de los antiguos linajes alemanes. La clase conocida cómo "Barones bálticos".



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Germans

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isla_de_Wrangel#Expediciones_brit.C3.A1nicas_y_americanas
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—Tienes la palabra de un oficial romano —dijo—. Vale más que un juramento.-

[APV]

Era el barón negro, el black baron de la canción sovietica: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zZqVOFSYRWI

[Urogallo]

¡Fantástico APV!
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—Tienes la palabra de un oficial romano —dijo—. Vale más que un juramento.-

[Urogallo]

Qué la primera Revolución de Octubre no fue en 1917.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Uprising


Oktoberaufstand
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—Tienes la palabra de un oficial romano —dijo—. Vale más que un juramento.-

[Davout]

- Dice una señora muy listuca que los moros no invadieron Asturias porque solo había cabras... ¡ Viva Pelayo el cabrero !
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LA PATRIE EN DANGER

[Urogallo]

Bien que i os presta lluego el quesín
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—Tienes la palabra de un oficial romano —dijo—. Vale más que un juramento.-