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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back January 26.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidderrick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=279863&amp;post=36746&amp;subd=davidderrick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Polish emigrants</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the skilled German is seeking new openings abroad, the unskilled Pole is drifting into Westphalia to do the work for which the native German’s standard is too high [which he is too proud to do], so that the Immigration statistics at present outbalance those of Emigration. [...] Polish unskilled labour has supplanted the native [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidderrick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=279863&amp;post=36738&amp;subd=davidderrick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hungary and Serbia</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Hungarians used the liberty they won in 1867 to subject the Slavonic population between themselves and the sea, and prevent its union with the free principality of Serbia [1817-82, when it became a kingdom, which lasted until 1918] of the same Slavonic nationality. This drove Serbia in 1913 to follow Hungary&#8217;s example by seizing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidderrick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=279863&amp;post=36723&amp;subd=davidderrick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rome’s discordant founders</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The numinous mana of a Rome that was the sepulchre of Peter and Paul had retained all the potency bequeathed by this second pair of discordant founders when the volatile political power of the pagan Rome of Romulus and Remus had ebbed away [...]. Romulus killed Remus. In the incident at Antioch Paul quarrelled with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidderrick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=279863&amp;post=36680&amp;subd=davidderrick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Board Ship</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“It’s like him, of course, this little pencil portrait. Hurriedly sketched, on the ship’s deck, the afternoon magical, the Ionian Sea around us. It’s like him. But I remember him as better looking. He was sensitive almost to the point of illness, and this highlighted his expression. He appears to me better looking now that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidderrick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=279863&amp;post=36671&amp;subd=davidderrick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Syracuse, Nicea, Trabzon and Arta</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The degree of the enemy pressure [Persian, Arab, Slavic] on fortress-Constantinople in the seventh century can be gauged by the remarkable facts that in 618 or 619 even the heroic Emperor Heraclius was with difficulty deterred from evacuating it, and that in 662 Heraclius’s grandson the Emperor Constans II did transfer the Empire’s capital to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidderrick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=279863&amp;post=36654&amp;subd=davidderrick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Montpellier</title>
		<link>http://davidderrick.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/montpellier/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Montpellier [where Adamantios Korais studied] was the university that served the hinterland of the port of Marseilles, to which it stood more or less in the relation of Padua to Venice. A Study of History, Vol VIII, OUP, 1954 (footnote)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidderrick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=279863&amp;post=36649&amp;subd=davidderrick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>President Truman and Brother Juniper</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 23:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Missourian politician-philanthropist’s eagerness to combine expediency with charity by assisting the wronged and suffering Jews would appear to have been untempered by any sensitive awareness that he was thereby abetting the infliction of wrongs and sufferings on the Arabs; and his excursions into the stricken field in Palestine reminded a reader of the Fioretti [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidderrick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=279863&amp;post=36636&amp;subd=davidderrick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quasthoff and Brahms</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From an interview released by EMI to support Simon Rattle’s 2007 Deutsches Requiem with the Berlin Philharmonic, Thomas Quasthoff, Dorothea Röschmann and the Rundfunkchor Berlin. On January 11 Quasthoff announced his retirement from all singing (though not teaching and other commitments). “But I am totally happy with it!!!!” he says, characteristically, according to Norman Lebrecht. Lebrecht’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidderrick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=279863&amp;post=36520&amp;subd=davidderrick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thomas Quasthoff</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Norman Lebrecht’s BBC Radio 3 interview with Quasthoff from last August is a marvellous 44 minutes and tells us everything we need to know about him.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidderrick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=279863&amp;post=36582&amp;subd=davidderrick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conrad’s stories and novellas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tales of Unrest 1898 Karain: A Memory The Idiots An Outpost of Progress The Return The Lagoon Youth, and Two Other Stories 1902 Youth Heart of Darkness The End of the Tether Typhoon, and Other Stories 1903 Typhoon Amy Foster Falk Tomorrow A Set of Six 1908 Gaspar Ruiz The Informer: An Ironic Tale The Brute An [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidderrick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=279863&amp;post=31737&amp;subd=davidderrick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Babylonic militarism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a Judah that had just escaped falling into Assyrian hands in 700 B.C. was carried away captive in 597 and 586 B.C. by the Assyrians’ Babylonian heirs, the only provinces of the Syriac World that still remained unscathed by Babylonic militarism were the Phoenicians’ colonial domain in the Western basin of the Mediterranean, which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidderrick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=279863&amp;post=36467&amp;subd=davidderrick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ottoman widows</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The wife of an Ottoman sultan came into power if and when her son succeeded her husband on the imperial throne; and an Herodotus would have noted with amusement that the accident of becoming a widow, for which a woman was penalized in the Hindu World by being sent to the funeral pyre to be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidderrick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=279863&amp;post=36458&amp;subd=davidderrick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Manzikert 1071</title>
		<link>http://davidderrick.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/manzikert-1071/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Modern, like Ancient, Greece was assailed in her infancy by a conqueror from the east, and, unlike Ancient Greece, she succumbed. Turkish nomads from the central Asiatic steppes had been drifting into the Moslem world [including Iran] as the vigour of the Arabs waned. First they came as slaves, then as mercenaries, until at last, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidderrick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=279863&amp;post=36427&amp;subd=davidderrick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Lewis</title>
		<link>http://davidderrick.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/paul-lewis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 13:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interviewed by Melchior Huurdeman in Amsterdam. What a civilised interaction. Lewis’s new Schubert is out. His website. Guardian article about his Schubert. Wikipedia. Talking to Tom Service about Beethoven. He could be cast as the young Beethoven, down to the chin. 1803 portrait by Christian Horneman.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidderrick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=279863&amp;post=36397&amp;subd=davidderrick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TH Huxley</title>
		<link>http://davidderrick.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/th-huxley/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 02:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Huxley arguing, in 1893 and ’94, against Social Darwinism. “Cosmic Nature is no school of virtue, but the headquarters of the enemy of Ethical Nature. &#8230; Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical process, the end of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidderrick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=279863&amp;post=36374&amp;subd=davidderrick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gentlemen of the French guard, fire first!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The eighteenth-century punctiliousness over fine points of the military game may be illustrated by the famous legend of the encounter between the English Guards and the French Guards at the Battle of Fontenoy in the War of the Austrian Succession. When the Red Line and the White Line had approached one another to within point-blank [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidderrick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=279863&amp;post=36313&amp;subd=davidderrick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Carthage and Venice</title>
		<link>http://davidderrick.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/carthage-and-venice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In [...] managing to retain her rank as a Great Power in an Hellenic or Hellenizing World in spite of the sudden vast increase in the scale of Hellenic life at the transition from a pre-Alexandnne to a post-Alexandrine Age of Hellenic history, Carthage achieved something that Venice failed to achieve at the transition from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidderrick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=279863&amp;post=36352&amp;subd=davidderrick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Giacinto Scelsi</title>
		<link>http://davidderrick.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/giacinto-scelsi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I mentioned him in the last post, here is Hinterhäuser playing Scelsi’s eighth piano suite. They both come from the same corner of Liguria. The suite is called Bot-Ba, which I think means Tibet. This is the first of three clips. The famously unphotographed Scelsi turns out to have had quite a few photographs taken [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidderrick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=279863&amp;post=36321&amp;subd=davidderrick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Austrian character</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An attractive but decidedly unheroic combination of fecklessness with amiability and softness with elegance. True, and one could have added an old-fashioned unpleasantness which was certainly in evidence when I spent time there in the ’70s. Unabashed antisemitism. A vigorous or sour cantankerousness. A spineless or sweet sycophancy. All true sometimes. Extreme sensitivity and fastidiousness [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidderrick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=279863&amp;post=36229&amp;subd=davidderrick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nabucco</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Which is an excuse for an unearned digression into Verdi. Lamberto Gardelli, Wiener Staatsoperorchester.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidderrick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=279863&amp;post=36225&amp;subd=davidderrick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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