Tag: documents
“To Say Goodbye”, the documentary about the Basque War Children, is...
Back in 2012, we shared the documentary "To Say Goodbye" when the BBC told us how, after a long, obstacle-filled road, it was finally...
The “Aita Gurea” that has been on the Mount of Olives...
On this day 118 years ago, a plaque with the text of the Lord's Prayer in Basque was placed in Jerusalem. There were a...
Aberri Eguna 2020: the Ikurriña as a symbol of the Basque...
Luis de Guezala has a PhD in History and a Masters in Archiving from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). He is also...
Preconceptions of “national essence” when discussing the Ezkuzta Magdalenian sticks
A few days ago, we came across an article on several sites about a study carried out by a group of Basque scientists on...
The ikurriña, the coat of arms, the anthem…the FAQs about Basque...
Over the past ten years that we've been blogging, we've had many questions about the origin of the most famous Basque symbols from people...
The 2020 Global Talent Competitiveness Index, Proof of Basque Strengths and...
A year ago, we wrote an entry on how the Global Talent Competitiveness Index Report (GTCI), whose purpose is to analyse the state of the...
Gregorio Arrien, a Basque, a Passionist, a historian, a patriot, has...
On December 13, we Basques lost one of our guiding lights, one of those people who led a community out of the darkness.
Gregorio Arrien...
Bilbao gets an amazing appraisal about its “Talent Search” in Davos
This article was translated by John R. Bopp
The history of the World Economic Forum, more popularly known as the Davos Forum, is the story of...
Zatarain: the Basque who created the “Cajun flavor” company in New...
We have discussed the very important and rather unknown community of Basques in Louisiana. The Basque presence there is rather logical, given that Louisiana...
Basques in the Americas: The Basque-Vicuña War for the Control of...
A historical even we did not know about has recently been uploaded to the English-language Wikipedia. It's all about the War between the Vicuñas...