Word: port
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Living in land of souring fit trees and grey, rainy days, it's nice to have some occasion to put your home town in the limelight for a couple of days. That's port of what sports is all about--the heroes that impure people to get together behind them...
...Stuff and nonsense--"traditional" leftism was the wart on the log in the hole of the bottom of the sea. (By contrast, Podhoretz mentions Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) exactly once, and that reference is to their "crude..." propaganda--a laughable charge to anyone who has read The Port Huron Statement, one of the most troubling and insightful documents of the decade...
...first to settle among the penguins, though, were French colonists organized by Louis Antoine de Bougainville, who wrote mournfully of the "vast silence broken only by the occasional cry of a sea monster." The French were building a tiny fort in Port Louis on East Falkland in 1764; the British reappeared the next year and began creating a settlement in West Falkland called Port Egmont...
...years. When the British accidentally discovered the French, they ordered them to depart, but while the colonists elbowed each other, the Spanish argued that the Papal Line of Demarcation of 1492 had awarded the whole region to them. The French sold out to Spain for £24,000, and Port Louis was renamed Puerto de la Soledad. The British, expelled by Spanish troops in 1770 from Port Egmont, talked fiercely of war. Or at least some London politicians did; the government tried to calm the public belligerence by hiring London's most talented polemicist, Samuel Johnson. Dr. Johnson obliged with...
Johnson's sneers proved prophetic. Although British diplomats won Spain's permission to maintain a settlement in the Falklands, London was preoccupied with the rebellion in its North American colonies and abandoned Port Egmont in 1774 as "uneconomical." In departing, though, the British commander nailed up a lead plaque that said: "Be it known to all nations that Falkland's Islands. . . are the sole property of His Most Sacred Majesty, George the Third, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland...