Word: minorcan
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...thesis can represent an exploration of personal interests, as well as a taste of higher education and professional avenues. Many disgruntled and jaded senior concentrators view the thesis as the bane of their social existence, not to mention an unpalatable chore, as they realize that toiletry practices of Minorcan societies no longer tweak their interest. Over the past few years, seniors have covered the typical range of topics, including the socioeconomic histories of every imaginable country, province, and anthill. Then there are the 100-page analyses, dissecting each feasible theme in Edith Wharton novels, and the usual incomprehensible, highly obscure...
...famous Mediterranean resort. It is Minorca, the lesser-known jewel of the Balearic Islands. Its attractions tend to be subtler but are often deeper. Over 4,000 years of its inhabited history, Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, Arabs, French and British have come and left their various imprints on Minorcan life, enriching its language and architecture. More than a beach vacation, Minorca is a 270-sq.-mi. museum, filled with ancient treasures. As many as 1,000 archaeological sites dot the countryside. Most of the monuments--including Bronze Age structures and early Christian basilicas--are integral features of the landscape, unfenced...
Minorca was ruled by Arabs from the 8th to the 18th century, then by Spaniards from the ancient city of Ciudadela (Ciutadella, in the Minorcan language), at the western end of the island. In 1713 the British moved their administrative capital to the town of Mahon (Mao) in the southeast, where it remains to this day. While Ciudadela boasts a Catholic cathedral and the imposing town houses of ancient nobility, Mahon is Georgian in flavor, with a commercial, matter-of-fact bustle. "Minorca is different in so many ways," observes a longtime resident, British-born historian Bruce Laurie...
...that still overlooks the port. British influence lives on in a taste for gin drinking ("Lord Nelson" was one of the brands produced on the island) and in the sprinkling of Anglicisms (among them xumeca for shoemaker and tornescru for screwdriver) that add a quaint historical dimension to the Minorcan language...
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