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@cusackandrew: Today would be the 100th birthday of pre-Columbian anthropologist and Algerian governor-general Jacques Soustelle.

Tibetan Word of the Day

Our Tibetan word of the day is Rum-yül, the language’s traditional word for “Europe”. The word literally means “Rome-land”, giving a certain Bellocian tone to the Tibetan language — it was Belloc, after all, who said “Europe is the Faith; the Faith is Europe”.

This post was published on Monday, November 30th, 2009 8:02 pm. It has been categorised under Errant Thoughts World and been tagged under , . Click here to view comments or respond.
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