“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor
“Very few Indians were left after 50 years,” saidRicardo Alegría, a Puerto Rican historian and anthropologist I interviewed before his death this past July. He had combed through Spanish archives to track the eclipse of the Taíno. “Their culture was interrupted by disease, marriage with Spa...
What is the United Arab Republic? Is Iraq a theocracy? What is Syria's main religion? What type of economy does Iraq have? What is another name for Mesopotamia? Who are the Basques? Is the Taliban Shia or Sunni? Who founded Al-Qaeda?
Is Bosnia and Herzegovina in the EU? What type of government does Bosnia have? Who are the Basques? Is Bosnia and Herzegovina in Europe? What type of government does Kosovo have? What is Lithuania? What caused the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s?
was active in the region, Ho replied, "In that field I am certainly more experienced than you are, sir, and I would emphatically urge the Basques to think it over very carefully before taking the plunge!" In later years, Ho Chi Minh occasionally commented that those were among the ...
The Basques are, like the Greeks, children of the sun; while the Valencian drapes himself, bare and sad, in his russet woollen rug, with a hole to pass his head through, the natives of Galicia and Biscay have the delight of fine linen shirts, bleached in the dew. Their thresholds and...
The French are Alsatians, Basques, Burgundians, Bretons, Corsicans, Normans, Parisians, Provençals, etc. first and French second. Parisians believe that anybody who doesn’t live in Paris is a peasant and beneath contempt. Paradoxically, most Parisians (half are interlopers) have a ...
Who were the Iberians? Who was the first governor of Jharkhand in India? Who is Francisco Vazquez de Coronado? Where are the Appalachian Mountains in Kentucky? What Abenaki tribes are recognized in Vermont? Who founded Paraguay? Who discovered Florida? Who are the Basques? Is West Virginia in...
Were there any Syrians living in Caucasus Mountains? What mountains run north and south through Russia? Who are the Kurds' ancestors? Where are the Ural Mountains? Which mountain range separates Georgia from Russia? Where did the Basques come from? What mountain range is found in South Central...
Who ruled the Neo Assyrian empire ? Who are Aboriginal peoples of Canada? Where did Serbs originate from? Are Armenians Slavic? What were the Germanic tribes? Where did the Basques come from? Where did Germanic tribes originate? Is Israel helping the Kurds? What do Aboriginal peoples call th...