Word: corsican
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...course Paris may yet have to deal with threats from Basque and Corsican insurgents, and even French truckers: In 15 blockades around the country Tuesday ahead of wage talks, more than 300 truckers turned roads into parking lots, implying that labor could threaten travel chaos for next month's tournament. But the unions may struggle to keep its members out on the barricades once television crosses live to France's kickoff against South Africa on June...
Bombs in the Corsican Night...
produced and edited by Proctor Patterson Jones (Random House; $85). History unfurls like the tricolore in this opulent work tracing Bonaparte's 14 years of supremacy. Within that astonishingly brief period, the little Corsican won wars and women, revised laws and set a style still echoing in EuropeUs corridors of power...
...good, not because it may pump up the "self-esteem" of Hispanic schoolchildren (the purpose of history is not to make people feel better), but because it accords with a large truth shrouded, at present, in omissions and lies. Columbus himself has been presented as Castilian, Catalan, Corsican, Majorcan, Portuguese, French, English, Greek and even Armenian. He was, in fact, Italian: born in Genoa in 1451, the son of a weaver...