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...began during the 13th century and which took its current position along the city's iconic Ramblas boulevard in 1840, embodies the city's sense of continuity. "I see people buying fish from my son who are the great-grandchildren of people who bought fish from my grandmother," says Manel Ripoll, president of the market's merchant association and a retired fishmonger. Though his children are the fifth generation to run the family stall, his grandmother might not recognize the Boqueria today. Fishmongers still dominate, but immigrants now run several of the produce stalls. Greeks and Koreans sell, respectively, kimchi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heresies in a Culinary Cathedral | 7/27/2007 | See Source »

...claims in London and Paris to compel Sir Basil, now lying ill in his Paris home, to recognize him. He asserted that Sir Basil was Russian-born, submitted an affidavit from the town council of Vilkomir, Lithuania (formerly part of Russia), and marriage and birth certificates establishing that one Manel Sahar married a Russian girl named Haia Elka Karollinski, had a son named Haim Manelevich Sahar. The marriage was dissolved in 1877 and both parents remarried.* Hyman Barnett Zaharoff asserted that Zaharoff was the Little Russian form of the name Sahar. His petition contradicted documents assembled by the British Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 20, 1933 | 11/20/1933 | See Source »

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