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Goetz Of The Iron Hand: On The Trail Of Renaissance Germany's Biggest Badass {Gadling}
Jan 31st 2013 5:07AM About Renaissance Germany, see Economist's eulogy for the Holy Roman Empire, Chsristmas and New Year no.
Five things I'll miss about Madrid (and four things I won't) {Gadling}
Sep 12th 2011 4:31AM I am not absolutely sure that pijos are exclusively nouveau riche and fear that many of them are ancien riche or at least ancien-ish. Any ruling class that has only been capable of defending its interests by recourse to iron surgeons (and one particularly nasty one springs to mind) loses its self respect and talks about buying things and bought things, when one surely inherits them, dear boy (the exception: yachts, paintings and racehorses).
