Bosnia and Herzegovina v Qatar is the World Cup’s only group-stage match where one country barely reaches the sea, and the other barely stops being an island.
Bosnia has just 20km of its 1,540km border at Neum. Qatar has only one short land border and more than 560km of coast.
Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography-based World Cup analysis.
I grew up in Massachusetts. Summers are humid, brutal with many mosquitos. Open the windows, you get bit. We had no AC, my best friend did. It was the ultimate luxury - this was the 1970s. I still remember getting hit in the face by the wall of cool whenever I walked into his house. I vowed that I would do whatever it took to get central AC. When we bought our first condo over 25 years ago, it obv had AC. I told myself then "I made it" and everything after was just gravy. Low expectations is key to happiness.
The Stoos Bahn is the steepest funicular railway in the world and is paraded as a masterpiece of Swiss engineering: it hauls passengers from the valley floor up a near-vertical 110% gradient.
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¿Seguro que es anónimo el #LazarillodeTormes? Que es una de las cumbres de nuestra literatura está claro, pero ¿quién lo escribió? Sepan Vuestras Mercedes que la última gran investigación, de tipo estilométrico y con buenas pruebas, se la atribuye a... >
Archeologists unearth 2200-year-old mosaics in an ancient Greek city named Zeugma in Gaziantep Province, Türkiye.
Three new mosaics have been discovered, dated 2nd Century BC, but incredibly well-preserved and look as beautiful and stunning as the first day.
Zeugma House of Museums
#archaeohistories
Today in 1485, Richard III is killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field. With him dies the Plantagenet dynasty. The last English monarch to fall in combat, his grave is forgotten. In 2012, archeologists discover his body beneath a parking lot. He now rests at Leicester Cathedral.
La reiterada y criolla distorsión de nuestros debates: los candidatos llegan con discursos preestablecidos… no son capaces de escuchar las preguntas con detenimiento; y responden lo que tenían preparado sin importar que no tenga nada que ver con la pregunta.
Cuando era pequeño venía a esta librería de Barcelona con mi padre. La recordaba desordenada y atendida por un señor mayor. Es lo que me he encontrado hoy.
Veníamos porque era una de las pocas que aceptaban vender su libro.
Si quieres saber qué libro era -> siguiente Tweet.
Color lithograph plates featuring Art Nouveau decorative patterns from c. 1900 by Verneuil, Auriol and Mucha.
Published in "Die Grotesklinie und ihre Spiegelvariation im modernen Ornament und in der Dekorationsmalerei", Berlin, Germany.