Word: nationhood
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...ever let the island sleep. Eight waves of plunderers had overrun it before the Normans arrived in 1061 to add it to their already extensive holdings in southern Italy. In 31 years of savage combat, the Normans subdued the Saracens, who then controlled Sicily, ushering in an era of nationhood and peace the likes of which the island had never known before-nor was ever to know again...
...Ways to Nationhood...
...based on arbitrary old colonial boundaries. They are either so small that they have no independent viability, as in the case of Chad or Dahomey or Upper Volta, or else so large and composed of such disparate tribes that they have no common sense of nationhood, as in the case of Nigeria...
...insisted that he would serve out his term. It was still too early to assess what effect, if any, the scandal will have in July, when the voters must decide whether they want their island to remain a commonwealth, become the 51st U.S. state or try independent nationhood. Most observers were still predicting that the commonwealth plan, backed by Sanchez, would...
...translation of the Bible-a rendering whose only peers are the King James version and the Latin Vulgate-Luther wrote a German of poetry and power that has been matched only by Goethe himself. In effect, he created a common language for Germany, the necessary prelude to nationhood...