About what nobody told that had happened exactly 130 years ago: in 1885
It was an eventful year: Mark Twain published “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, the chancellor Otto von Bismarck occupied Cameroon, Louis Pasteur successfully tested the anti-rabies vaccine, Rodin created the marvelous ”Les Bourgeois de Calais”, the Statue of Liberty was brought to New York.
At the market in Chiang Saen
“Autumn has come again” as a poet would say. These days, while I was thinking of the crops offered by “the fairy of singsongs, of terror-struck flowers, and the lady of cucurbitaceae” on the land of...
