Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year 2024 falls on Saturday, February 10th, 2024, and celebrations culminate with the Lantern Festival on February 24th, 2024. Celebrations last up to 16 days, but only the first 7 …
International workers day
International workers day, labor day, may day, it’s a public holiday in many countries worldwide. It usually occurs on May 1, but not in every country. Its origin, history, customs and traditions. …
On reading
On reading. A short essay by Isaac Disraeli from the book Literary Character of Men of Genius, a very interesting text that you can freely read with great profit. There is an …
Media Multilingual Quotations
In certain televisions there are numerous questionable characters, chosen from a small number of morons, but seen and heard by a few million people, including of course many fools. Now you understand …
English grammar summaries
The greater part of the world’s troubles are due to questions of grammar. Michel de Montaigne Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social …
Italian Stupidity
Italian stupidity, quotes, aphorisms, ideas and thoughts about the famous and bizarre Italian nation and the foolishness of its funny easy-going people. Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is …
Elections quotes
The total collapse of the public opinion polls shows that this country is in good health. A country that developed an airtight system of finding out in advance what was in people’s …
American quotes (part 2)
The American people may not be the best-educated, but they’re very wise at heart. Norman Lear I just want someone to explain to the American public why investing in transportation in Iraq …
H.L. Mencken reflections
Henry Louis Mencken great reflections and thoughts about different topics, such as religion, democracy, life, love, government, philosophy, education and so on. The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the …