London, UK
Singer Annie Lennox performs during the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games (via Reuters.com)
Snippets of news and comment from the EU and beyond
Ask me anything
Submit
August 16, 2012
August 15, 2012
London, UK
The full moon rises through the Olympic Rings hanging beneath Tower Bridge during the London 2012 Olympic Games (via Reuters.com)
August 13, 2012
London, UK
A Femen movement protestor is detained by police officers during a naked protest. Two topless women painted with the slogans “Olympic shame” and “No Sharia” protested in front of London’s City Hall to draw attention to what they called “bloody Islamist regimes” taking part in the Olympics. (via Reuters.com)
April 19, 2012
Weymouth, UK
A giant sand castle marks 100 days to the 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony in London. (via BBC News)
January 31, 2012
Spain: Madrid launches bid for 2020 Olympics with bizarre logo that says 20020
Madrid launched its bit to host the Olympic Games in 2020 on Monday unveiling a logo that immediately sparked controversy and left many Spaniards confused.
The design purportedly consists of the letter M for Madrid and the number 20 in front of the coloured rings of the Olympics stylised into arches inspired by the Madrid landmark, Puerta de Alcala.
But the lettering appears to show “20020”, an effect that has brought much derision in the Spanish press and on social networking sites.
Within hours of the logo being unveiled the subject was trending in Spain on Twitter with the majority of views expressed of the negative variety.
One twitter user said it looked “like a display of flip-flops for the beach” another said it resembled a “colourful array of Bishops’ mitres”.
But most questioned whether Madrid was bidding for the “2020” Olympic Games or the “20020”. (via Telegraph)
January 12, 2012
London, UK
Daniel Keatings of Great Britain in action on the Rings during day one of the Men’s gymnastics Olympic qualification round at North Greenwich Arena. Great Britain’s men won the Olympic test even in style to qualify a full team for the Game for the first time since Barcelona 1992. (via BBC News)
December 8, 2011
UK
British sprinter James Ellington is seeking a sponsorship deal via an online auction site as part of his race to compete in the 2012 Olympic Games in London. He has turned to eBay to try to raise funds. (via Telegraph)
July 29, 2011
London 2012: Olympic gold medals glitter in public for the first time
Design by British artist David Watkins in line with London 2012 logo but fails to impress branding experts (via The Guardian)
RSS feed: http://euralmanac.tumblr.com/rss
-
The Cathedral of the Annunciation in Moscow by marantzer on Flickr.
-
angry French person : PUTAINamazed French person : PUTAINhappy French person : PUTAINsad French person : PUTAINlost French person : PUTAINdisgusted French person : PUTAIN... ...
-
AW YISS PEASANT COMICS BY KATE BEATON
-
-
Du weißt, dass du Deutsch bist, wenn …
du in der neusten Ausgabe des Dudens nachsehen musst, wie die aktuelle... -
Oh my goodness. What starts out as an amusing and scientifically inaccurate cartoon about dinosaurs from the 1960s ends on a bizarre and frankly...
-
Slovakia did not break European Union laws guaranteeing the free movement of people when it...
-
A workman mows the grass roof of a government building near the capital city of Tórshavn, on August 13, 2009. © Bob Strong/Reuters
