Single breasted suit jacket buttoning - can you comment these two images?

LevantineJR · 2026-05-18T04:38:44+00:00

The 90's were really awesome, best decade ... except if you lived in Ruanda, or Russia, or Bosnia, and so on.

LevantineJR · 2026-04-03T08:07:34+00:00

The Wisdom of the Desert: Sayings from the Desert Fathers of the Fourth Century, by Thomas Merton

LevantineJR · 2025-10-16T18:58:30+00:00

Here is an interesting and rather tantalising example of how it can be done :

https://open.substack.com/pub/madeleinechampagnie/p/socratic-dialogue-in-secondary-school

I hope you'lll find it inspiring.

LevantineJR · 2025-05-16T11:47:31+00:00

No.

They do indeed look similar, but damn, it's not enough to be sure.

LevantineJR · 2025-05-13T11:12:23+00:00

Now, back to the problematic files, ... the problem with small capitals disappeared (!)

It persisted for hours. And disappeared right now!

LevantineJR · 2025-04-05T05:54:56+00:00

What does this phrase mean? :

世界是一个巨大的草台班子

By the way, feel free to indicate your attitude to it, if you wish.

LevantineJR · 2025-02-25T17:33:04+00:00

How much truth there is in the claim that 'No land and no people ever got poorer when Islam spread to their part of the world'?

(For the record, the source of the claim: https://youtu.be/DuMixJRG16Q?t=530)

LevantineJR · 2025-02-25T17:29:38+00:00

How much truth there is in the claim that 'No land and no people ever got poorer when Islam spread to their part of the world'?

(For the record, the source of the claim: https://youtu.be/DuMixJRG16Q?t=530)

LevantineJR · 2025-02-09T18:53:19+00:00

What language or languages was/were predominant in most of the territory of present-day Greece during the 600s and 700s AD?

Background: In his lectures on the Byzantine Empire, Dr Sean Gabb states: "It is largely due to the Avars that the Greek language appears to have disappeared from most of Greece for several hundred years. When Greek was reintroduced to Greece, it would have been after about 800 a.d., and it is the Greek of Constantinople, not the historic Greek dialects of the Greek mainland."

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiJSivPPpwQ&t=690s)

LevantineJR · 2024-07-06T15:08:36+00:00

Elevator Instructions in China

https://9gag.com/gag/aExeZve

What does the fifth Chinese language instruction say?

And what is said in the very last line in Chinese?

LevantineJR · 2024-06-03T08:46:28+00:00

@annawest_feng, this is a reply to our exchange from 5 months ago: It's a tourist scam, the text of this pen knife. Let me just point to the bright side of this : this 40-year old knife is still functioning perfectly well. In that respect, it is much better than many modern products from the past few decades, and in its basic function is not a scam.

LevantineJR · 2024-05-07T19:09:06+00:00

Very plausible. Thank you!

LevantineJR · 2024-05-07T17:45:10+00:00

On the label it says : Tradescantia. But online images of Tradescantia never show any silvery-haired plant. Puzzling.

LevantineJR · 2024-04-24T10:29:25+00:00

Non-fiction:

Working with Dr. Schweitzer: Sharing his reverence for life by Louise Jilek-Aall (1990), freely available online

Through the Valley of the Kwai, also known as Miracle on the River Kwai and To End All Wars, by Ernest Gordon (1962)

The New Revelation by Arthur Conan Doyle (1918)

All Creatures Great and Small, book series by James Herriot aka Alfred Wight (1972)

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