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Archive for February, 2008

Character Lineup

Voilà, the Menace to Western Civilization. All the beautiful people neatly in a row. Two different (irregular) sizes.

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February 3rd, 2008 | Category: art, goldenbird | Comments (1)

Dannunziana

The Lund University Library has four English-language biographies of Gabriele D’Annunzio, the diminutive dictator of Fiume. Here’s a short, superficial review of each, with the first sentences as examples of the grand prose that his ghost has inspired in other historians (I’m not the first victim…).

February 2nd, 2008 | Category: Historia, italia, literature | Comments (2)

The First Finnish Tango

Whatever the Argentinians might say, the tango is considered the essence of Finnishness in Finland. The fashion dance of the 1910’s was first introduced in Helsinki by a Danish couple, who danced at the Hotel Börs in 1913. Paradoxically, the first Finnish-language tango song was a parody of the tango craze, which was seen as [...]

February 1st, 2008 | Category: 1920's, music, suomi | Comments (2)

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