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Scenes of San Sebastian in Documentaries from 1913 and 1920-1930

imagen de un documental sobre Donostia en 1913 conservado en el EYE Film Museum
Back in 2014, we brought you an amateur film from the 1960s showing scenes of Bilbao, the bay, and Ondarroa.  A year later, we...

Colombia Commemorates the Launch of Their Training Ship in Erandio

Buque-escuela Gloria de Colombia
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia has published a notice on its website about the launching of the training ship Gloria, which we've...

Gregorio Arrien, a Basque, a Passionist, a historian, a patriot, has...

Arrien presentado su libro - salvad a los niños- Sabino Arana Fundazioa
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...

“Karmele”: ‘Variety’ reports that a film about two Basque patriots is...

Txomin Letamendi y Karmele Urresti en Donibane lohitzun
Variety is a prestigious American magazine dedicated to the world of entertainment, which has been published since 1905 and which we've cited before. This month,...

From Canada: footprints of the Jewish presence in the Basque Country

El cementerio judío de Bayona, Francia, alberga 3.000 tumbas sobre el suelo. (Foto de Ron Csillag)
The website of the Jewish weekly Canadian Jewish News (with a run of 32,000 copies) has just published an article by Ron Csillag discussing the presence of...

110th anniversary of the birth of George L. Steer, the journalist...

George Steer en el aeródromo de East London el 2 de noviembre de 1938
We found out thanks to the Twitter account of the Basque Children of '37 Association, a British association that safeguards and dutifully shares the...

Lies and threats against the defenders of the Cause of the...

Los primeros voluntarios del  batallón Arana Goiri.
The past few days, we Basques have had to witness, stupefied, the spectacle of watching Vox, a far-right Spanish party that defends Francoism, accuse...

A book on the history of the Basques from the 17th...

Guerra Carlista. batalla de Luchana
This article was translated by John R. Bopp We've mentioned the Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno on many occasions.  For a country as small...

The Irujo Brothers, Manuel, Andrés María, and Pello, in memory of...

Mikel Ezkerro was born in Rawson, Chacabuco, Buenos Aires province, and studied at the Jesuit school in Bilbao, in the Basque Country.  He continued...

Cider has been “protecting” Basque sailors for centuries

Basque galleons ride at anchor in Red Bay, Labrador (historimuseum.ca)
This article was translated by John R. Bopp BlitzLift is a website that collects "info pills" about history, science, and curiosities.  We could spend hours discovering...