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Month: April 2021

CIPC #219: The Da Vinci code

Posted on April 28, 2021January 3, 2022

Here’s an interesting observation about pop culture in 2021: there hasn’t been a book craze in quite a while. Some twenty years ago, there was…

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CIPC #218: Frauenarzt Dr. Prätorius

Posted on April 20, 2021January 3, 2022

Sad news for the lovers of early music: we’re not talking about the iconic German music theorist and composer from around 1700. Instead, we are…

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CIPC #217: Agatha Christie’s Poirot S9 E2, Sad cypress

Posted on April 13, 2021

Long, long time ago, when this blog was still in its infancy, Agatha Christie’s Poirot was a recurring guest. It’s been more than two years…

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CIPC #216: Suske en Wiske – korte verhalen – schaken

Posted on April 7, 2021January 3, 2022

Everybody in Flanders know Suske en Wiske. There are well over three hundred issues in the comic book series, there have been a couple of…

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With this blog, I will critique chess as it appears in all sorts of popular media. I will honour the good and, probably much more frequently, castigate the bad.

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