Sunday, July 14, 2024

Jaroslav Rudiš: Everything is connected in Central Europe even trees

 “Reading brings us unknown [Twitter/X 🥳] friends.”

- Honoré de Balzac

Found on this Twitter (X) account via Swiss Miss.


On July 14, 1789, in an event symbolizing the start of the French Revolution, citizens of Paris stormed the Bastille prison and released the seven prisoners
inside


Steve’s birthday to day after Christopher, but after L and M or Dr C


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A person is a note in the mouth of probability hungry for song, reverberating with echoes of the impossible. To exist at all is as close as this universe of austere laws and inert matter gets to a miracle. At its most miraculous, life has a musical quality, harmonious and symphonic with meaning. The word person itself takes its root from the Latin for “to sound through.”

 Let the last thing be song


KEY POINTS

  • Czechia’s Barbora Krejcikova won the Wimbledon women’s singles final  6-2, 2-6, 6-4 against Italy’s Jasmine Paolini.
  • Seeded 31 for this tournament, she is the fifth Czech woman to win Wimbledon in the open era
Barbora Krejcikova said early last year she did not want to be forgotten.
There is no danger of that now, with Krejcikova becoming the fifth Czech woman to win the Wimbledon singles title in the Open Era, behind Martina Navratilova (representing the United States), her late former coach Jana Novotna, Petra Kvitova and Marketa Vondrousova.


Stunning 820 year old linden tree, also known as lime or basswood, is the national tree of the Czech Republic.



       Jaroslav Rudiš Q & A

       Czech author Jaroslav Rudiš' Winterberg's Last Journey is now available in English -- see the Jantar publicity page -- and at Radio Prague International Ian Willoughby has a Q & A with Jaroslav Rudiš: Everything is connected in Central Europe.

Advice: “sleep with people for whom sex is as important as it is to you” — Lillian Fishman asks, “What are we doing when we have sex with someone for whom sex isn’t what it is for us?”

Only in French nunnery - An 18th century CE ivory dildo complete with contrivance for simulating ejaculation and its own discreet cloth bag. Now housed at the Science Museum in London.

Found on the Museum of Artefacts

Teehee. Find the Wikipedia page here.


Catching a Soviet lab leak


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