Category Archives: General

Two December Deaths

Posted on December 17, 2011 by Cora

Yesterday, one of my favourite German actors, Walter Giller, died aged 84. I first encountered Walter Giller in the TV comedy show Locker vom Hocker in the late 1970s. Later I saw the young Walter Giller in many a harmless … Continue reading →

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And yet another plagiarism case

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Cora

Yet another plagiarism case has popped up, this time concerning uncanny similarities between Lenore Hart’s 2011 novel The Raven’s Bride and Cothburn O’Neal’s 1956 novel The Very Young Mrs. Poe. Both novels deal with Virginia Clemm, cousin and teenaged bride … Continue reading →

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More gender discussion, this time grammatical

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Cora

Aliette de Bodard, Keyan Bowes and Juliette Wade all respond to this study about how grammatical gender supposedly influences perception. I must confess that when I first read the National Public Radio article (since the actual study doesn’t seem to … Continue reading →

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Rembrandt, Elsje Christiaens and a stats oddity

Posted on November 24, 2011 by Cora

Does anybody have any idea why 150 people, most of them in Norway and Denmark, felt the need to search for “Elsje Christiaens”, an 18-year-old Danish girl who was executed in Amsterdam in 1664 for beating her landlady to death … Continue reading →

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Three November Deaths

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Cora

Yes, I know that November is the month of death, but we didn’t have to take it that literally, did we? Because in addition to losing a neighbour to cancer, this November has seen the loss of some remarkable people … Continue reading →

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Celebrities being arseholes about Occupy Wall Street

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Cora

Legendary comic writer/artist Frank Miller is proving himself to be an arsehole over the Occupy movement. Well, I never liked his work as much as many others, even in my comic reading days – overrated and way too much problematic … Continue reading →

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Newcastle Photos Part 4 – Tynemouth

Posted on November 8, 2011 by Cora

During my recent stay in Newcastle I also visited Tynemouth, a small seaside town located, as the name implies, at the mouth of the Tyne.

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Newcastle Photos Part 3 – Architecture

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Cora

Here’s the third installment of my Newcastle photos. This time we have architecture from medieval to ultra-modern:

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Newcastle Photos Part 2 – Monuments

Posted on November 6, 2011 by Cora

As promised, here is the second part of my Newcastle photos. This installment focuses on sculptures and monuments, though some architecture has found its way in here, too, because the two cannot always be neatly separated.

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Newcastle Photos Part 1 – Bridges

Posted on November 5, 2011 by Cora

At last, here are the first of my Newcastle photos. I’ll start off with bridges, because Newcastle has quite a lot of them, including some very interesting constructions. The Tyne bridges have their own website, by the way.

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