Word: cantabria
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...live in a different world where there is no pure blood (we are all "mixes," thank God!) and mature once and for all? Maybe Barack Obama cannot change our country that much. But he might make us all more aware of the so-called brotherhood of man. Christy Cox, CANTABRIA, SPAIN...
...recent paper in the journal Science, Marcos Cruz of Spain's Institute of Physics of Cantabria, along with Turok and others, reported they had detected an irregularity in the glow of radiation still smoldering from the Big Bang. It's by no means a sure confirmation of the texture theory, but they are encouraged, particularly because basic physics argues that textures should exist...
...YSIOS Visitors to Ysios' new bodega, set against the spectacular backdrop of the Sierra de Cantabria that shields the Rioja vines from northwesterly winds, may feel like wine pilgrims. Architect Santiago Calatrava has created a cathedral-like building with undulating curves that echo a row of barrels. www.bodegasysios.com...
...least," says Bosch. Whatever happens, Spain has already begun to dismantle the remnants of Franco's legacy. Mass graves of Republican sympathizers are now being excavated by volunteer organizations like Forum for Memory; just last month a related organization, the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory, unearthed in Cantabria the shared grave of two young men who, fleeing advancing Nationalist troops in 1937, were caught and shot in the head. In addition to setting up the Civil War and Francoism Commission, Zapatero's Council of Ministers authorized in January an increase in the pensions Spain pays...
Other names of the group celebrate famous wordly municipalities. Botolphia and Cantabria are the representatives in the court of the sky of Boston and Cambridge, and Portlandia and Winchester are the heavenly types of their respective boroughs. To two other asteroids Professor Shapley assigned the names Arequipa and Mandeville, commemorating the branches of the College Observatory. A personal touch is given to the general christening by the naming of three tiny bodies after Dr. Metcalf, Professor G. E. Bond, the first director of the Observatory, and the late Professor E. C. Pickering, director for 40 years...
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