Word: pasqual
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...wooden farm table at his local branch of Belgian bakery chain Le Pain Quotidien. Restaurants ranging from the fast-casual Bonefish Grill chain to high-end foodie destinations like the Herbfarm in Woodinville, Wash., are offering communal tables. A couple who met at the shared table at Cafe Pasqual's in Santa Fe, N.M., named their child Pasqual. And Wagamama, a global noodle chain, has just opened its first U.S. outlet in Boston, with communal seating...
Basque terrorist group ETA threw a "message bomb" into the Spanish general-election campaign. That was how Pasqual Maragall, Socialist President of the regional government of Catalonia, described the video statement by two masked ETA members that the separatists were suspending their campaign of bombing and killing - but only in Catalonia. Analysts speculate the ETA move is designed to divide Spain's main parties in their shared approach to terrorism and to try to draw Catalonia into the Basque conflict. The announcement is politically embarrassing for Maragall, because it followed a recent secret meeting between the leader of his governing...
...Californians never have been good at organized violence. The bloodiest battle ever to take place on California’s soil was the Dec. 6, 1846 Battle of San Pasqual during the Mexican-American War. Only a few months after the Americans took southern California without firing a shot, the locals rebelled. Twenty-one Americans and six Californios died in the battle; within the year, U.S. General Stephen W. Kearny put down the insurrection and marched triumphantly into Los Angeles...
...honest Californian to do? For now, I’m keeping the thermostat on 80 and making sure not to use expensive scientific equipment when the grid goes down. I’m also doing some reading on Andres Pico, the Mexican leader at the Battle of San Pasqual. That is, if the lights stay...
...approach this teeming, impacted port that Joan Maragall, Barcelona's greatest turn-of-the-century poet and grandfather of the city's present mayor, Pasqual Maragall, called la gran encisera -- the great enchantress? Only in terms of its own history -- one not always shared with the rest of Spain, and often in opposition to it. Barcelona is a very old city, founded by the Romans late in the 1st century B.C.; their massive walls, topped by medieval additions, still encircle its core...