Word: numantia
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...have supported Cuba for [a seat on the U.N.] Security Council. We have relations with the socialist camp because it supported us in the face of the U.S. embargo. How do you think we could have been able to survive without this support? We would have died here, like Numantia, in ancient times.* So we are grateful that we have had friendly relations with the Soviets, but we do not belong to the Warsaw Pact, we do not belong to any military pact. The criteria of nonalignment are that a country should not belong to any military bloc and should...
...Celtic-Iberian settlement in Spain, Numantia held off the invaders for 60 years before being taken...
...rebuked until at last he tried in desperation to hold out the precepts of democracy upon the point of his sword. And the wrath of the city arose and smote him for his impudence and his body was thrown by night into father Tiber. Far away at Numantia his brother in law, whom the Romans called Africans, heard the news and recalled a line of Homer "So perish all who do the like again...
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