In 1525 the first book published in the Estonian language was printed. The book was a Lutheran manuscript, which never reached the reader and was destroyed immediately after publication. _ Wikipedia
Nov 152011
Feb 112011
The organ-building firm of Cavaillé-Coll, who supplied instruments to churches throughout the country, also built many organs for private customers – the largest being a cathedral-size instrument for the fabulously wealthy Baron Albert de l’Espée, an eccentric aristocrat condemned to solitude by a morbid fear of germs, who used to spend hours alone, immersed in the music of Wagner, in the cavernous organ-hall of the Chateau d’Ilbarritz on the rocky Atlantic coast near Biarritz.
From a piece on the Poulenc Organ Concerto. French Wikipedia adds that he played Wagner on the full-sized cathedral organ (below) with the windows open.
Here’s the Chateau:
For those of us who still mourn the death of Spike Milligan.
Jun 292010
Jessie Gugig, 15, said she could not believe the charges, especially against Mrs. Murphy, who was an accomplished gardener.
“They couldn’t have been spies,” she said. “Look what she did with the hydrangeas.”
Jan 282010
Sign on wall of Fort Lee, N.J. Middle School :
If you can’t be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.
Hat tip to Dr Phillips.
Sep 232009
There is much innocent (and intelligent) fun to be had at Dr Boli’s Celebrated Magazine. Worth working backwards, because he’s no one-trick pony.
Dr Phillips (whom God preserve, of New Jersey) liked this one.
Dr Boli’s other interests are eyebrow-raising, but for those you need to go to his site & follow the links.