Top five lists
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The Five Things thing:
Ask me for "top five" lists of pretty much anything, and I will list you my top five of that thing or things. (Assuming that I have a top five, or even any five, of the thing in question.)
oursinThe Five Things thing:
Ask me for "top five" lists of pretty much anything, and I will list you my top five of that thing or things. (Assuming that I have a top five, or even any five, of the thing in question.)
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Date: 2005-07-20 08:38 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-07-20 08:50 pm (UTC)Trad (pre 1900)
The Fair Flower of Northumberland
The Durham Lockout
Tam Lin
Here's Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy
The Lowlands of Holland
Post 1900
Freedom Come All Ye
Between the Wars
51st Highland Division's Farewell to Sicily
Palaces of Gold
The World Turned Upside Down
Parodies
The Female Highwayman
To Be a Pharmacist
The January June
My Husband's Got No Porridge in Him
The Irish Ballad (Tom Lehrer)
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Date: 2005-07-20 08:43 pm (UTC)top five favourite meals (specific occurances - memorable meals...etc) that you've ever had.
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Date: 2005-07-20 09:03 pm (UTC)2. At Chez Jean-Louis in Greenwich CT. One dish and the wines stand out. The dish was a terrine of medallions of lobster in a Sauterne aspic. The wines were a Poniatowski Sancerre and Ch. Lascombes '79.
3. Christmas, a couple of years ago. Home cured gravlax, rare duck breast on a bed of de Puy lentils, fennel and red pepper salad, cheese (including a Mont d'Or)
4. Breakfast at Patou's in New Orleans. Fantastic sausage and andouille. I even enjoyed the grits.
5. The meal at Malakor described in this post (http://www.livejournal.com/users/chickenfeet2003/2005/01/27/)
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Date: 2005-07-20 08:44 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-07-21 11:28 am (UTC)Various compilations of material from The Pearl
The Perfumed Garden of the Shaykh Nefzawi in the Burton translation
Most of the other stuff I can think of is probably faux though I'm really not sure.
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Date: 2005-07-20 09:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-20 09:17 pm (UTC)V'Adoro Pupille
Ombre Mai Fu
When I am Laid in Earth
He was Despised
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Date: 2005-07-20 09:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-20 09:29 pm (UTC)Peter Grimes at the Garden c.1980 - John Vickers, Geraint Evans, Colin Davis
Il Nozze de Figaro The Giulini recording with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
The Ring The Solti recording for Decca
Giulio Cesare at the COC a few years ago with (gasp, drool) Isabel Bayrakdarian
Magic Flute at the ENO around 1975. It was the first time I'd seen opera live. I loved it.
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Date: 2005-07-20 09:36 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-07-21 10:48 am (UTC)Tolstoy War and Peace
Solzhenitsyn The First Circle
Sholokhov And Quiet Flows the Don
Konstantin Days and Nights
Solzhenitsyn A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch
Lowering the brow.
Date: 2005-07-21 07:29 am (UTC)Re: Lowering the brow.
Date: 2005-07-21 10:55 am (UTC)Any of the Leovilles
Bombay Sapphire Gin
Rochefort Dix
Old dry oloroso
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Date: 2005-07-21 03:41 pm (UTC)Marc Bloch
Thomas Jefferson
Nelson Mandela
Horatio Nelson
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Date: 2005-07-21 03:48 pm (UTC)Totally with you on Cromwell, except when I'm wearing my architectural historian hat.
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Date: 2005-07-21 04:04 pm (UTC)Marc Bloch was a French medievalist of great distinction. His books include Les Rois Thaumaturges and La Societe Feodale. He was a founding editor of Annales.
He was decorated for bravery while serving in the French infantry as an NCO during WW1. Although well over age and a father of (I think) five kids he was under no obligation to serve again in 1939 but he did, as a staff officer in Belgium. He wrote a brilliant analysis of the debacle of May 1940, L'Etrange Defaite.
A jew, he was deprived of his academic positions and joined the resistance where he became a key leader in the Lyons area. He was arrested, tortured and executed by the Gestapo in 1944, one of Klaus Barbie's higher profile victim.
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Date: 2005-07-21 04:37 pm (UTC)no subject
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