If only Americans read old books. The first pages of the bitter 1811 memoirs of Sous-Lieutenant Albert Jean Michel de Rocca, a Hussar in Napoleon's cavalry in Spain, where guerilla warfare saw on average 100 French soldiers massacred per day. For no use at all. 
This is a terrific slogan. How can it be rewritten to apply to the EU oligarchy? ‘Si los Vallones entraran, los Borbones no reinaran’ - ‘If the Walloons enter, the Bourbons shall not reign.'
What is the opposite of a Deja Vu? A "I told you this would happen"?
There is some excellent ethnography here: the stilt walking shepherds of Landes who could keep up with trotting horses! 13-19km/h. A famous stilt walker once went Paris—Moscow in just 58 days. How is that for speed and sustainability?
An odd and interesting bit of urbanism trivia here: the French army's use and abuse of vacated Spanish cities and towns, often they wouldn't even know the name of the place and noone left to ask. I wonder if any of those temporary street names or nomenclature survived the war?
The young Swiss Hussar in the French army describes his impressions of Madrid in first few days after its surrender. It sounds too interesting to be true! I have many friends who visited modern Madrid, no-one had a story one thousandth as colorful.
