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'Daar Kom Die Alibama?"

In one of those, "who knew?" kind of moments, I discovered this:

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It is a South African folk song, still sung today, commemorating the Confederate States of America cruiser, CSS Alabama that visited (obviously) during the US Civil War. And, up until 1994 the grave of Lt. Simeon W. Cummings, of the CSA Navy was located in Kilrpug Farm, Saldanha...
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Haka. New Zealand. What the world has been waiting for:

Der God onzer voorvaden heeft ons heden een schitterende overwinning gegeven!

And thats pretty much the entirety of my knowledge of Afrikaans. Aside from the odd word here and there, Afrikaans was one of those languages that eluded me as I could never find a program (academic that is) that taught it. Much like Swedish and Finnish and other "minor" European languages it is hard...
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20 Awesome Literary Tattoos

So. Anyone with a literary tattoo out there in SG land? Thanks to the F/X TV show "Archer" I want the third stanza of Lord Byrons The Destruction of Sennacherib on my back.

So. Haven't posted in a bit. Why? Well, I try not to complain on blogs or chat rooms or message boards. Given the streak of bad luck I am on, all I want to do is complain, so no post. But, in order to get it out of my system in the last month I have, in addition to being unemployed:

1) Been in a...
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Candy! Japanese candy! A Japanese Candy of the Month club! I do not know why I am just finding out about this now. WIth the all powerful interwebnets one would have thought that I would have Googled this up already.

CandyJapan: The Japanese Candy Subscription Program Your Taste-Buds Have Been Waiting For

Firefly. Serenity. Rap music. Browncoats. Big Damn Heroes. It has it all.

150 year ago today was the high water mark of the CSA. "For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two oclock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags...
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