Quotations taken from Antony Beevor, The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 [Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2006].
The Red TerrorOp cit. p. 87:
In all, the victims of the red terror in the Republican zone during the civil war rose to some 38,000 people, of whom almost half were killed in Madrid (8,815) [...]
9/10. Though the plot (particularly in its ‘and we lived happily ever after’ conclusion) is a little too ‘romantic’ for my tastes this is a brilliant novel with an amazing prose style: supple, rich and perfectly suited to the nature of the work.
Have repository {start-repo} and want to merge into {old-repo} at {some-dir-name}
# if you just wanted trunk replace with this # svndump {start-repo} | svndumpfilter include trunk svnadmin dump {start-repo} > my-dump # copy file to main server and change to web-user svnadmin load –parent-dir {some-dir-name} {old-repo} < my-dumpI’ve been thinking about how to have a versioned domain model similar to the way we have versioned filesystems (e.g. subversion) for over two years. Over the last few months whatever bits of free time I’ve had have gone into developing a prototype built on top of sqlobject and I’ve now got a rough and [...]
5.5/10. The short story origins showed through here with the plot proving too slender for a feature length film. Strong performances, particularly from Giamatti, helped but were not enough to making this into anything other than a pleasant piece of inconsequentiality.
I’ve updated mkdn2latex the python script which converts markdown to latex (see also the original release announcement). Changes include:
Support for markdown code blocks and html pre/code blocks generally using latex verbatim Verified compatibility with markdown 1.6 A few minor bugfixes4/10. Bad Lynch, a few good moments at the start but once she goes through the rabbit hole about an hour in it starts going really downhill and I actually left at around two and a quarter hour mark (something I haven’t done in a long time).
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