Tag: history
Artists triumph around the world only 14,000 years after creating their...
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All who’ve read Jean M. Auel’s The Clan of the Cave Bear have discovered the magic and profound...
Canada: A Mi’kmaq woman, whose last name was “Basque”, and who...
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In the Canadian daily The Globe and Mail, Allison Lawlor has written a beautiful obituary for Elsie Basque,...
The oldest map in Western Europe discovered in a cave in...
We’d like to bring to you today a piece of news that was published before this blog existed, but which we think is extraordinarily...
“The Basques: A Disappearing People” Élisée Reclus (1867)
Élisée Reclus was a French geographer and an anarchist member of the First International. A tireless traveler, he is the creator of Social Geography,...
The Basque Presence in Newfoundland and Labrador Goes Well Beyond Red...
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We've blogged before about the centuries-long presence of Basque whalers and fishermen on the Atlantic coast of what...
Basque whaling boats, from the depths of history to an homage...
Given its design and handling, they've been called the "race cars" of the 16th century, and have been such an essential part to the...
Basques are from “the day before yesterday”, or science and populism
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Note: a few days after writing this, we couldn’t resist bringing back a story on another article in...
The official end to the “Basque-Icelandic conflict” reported by The Washington...
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A few days ago, the US newspaper The Washington Post published an article in its "world views" section written...
The Telegraph: Red Bay, in Canada, will always be Basque
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Nigel Richardson’s job as journalist for The Telegraph is the envy of many of his colleagues, including ourselves. You only...
400 years later: reconciliation between Basques and Icelanders
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Truth be told, the reconciliation between Basques and Icelanders took place many centuries ago, as evidenced by the existence...