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...Catalan is indeed a separate language, spoken by 4,300,000 people in the Balearic Islands, Valencia, and Spanish Catalonia, as well as in Andorra. Expatriate Catalans are so proud of their native tongue and literature that they still give prizes for literary and poetic contests, called Joes Florals de la Llengua Catalana...
...sages of the Talmud compared the moser to a serpent.... The great Talmudist of Lucena, Joseph ibn Migas, caused an informer to be stoned before the close of a certain Day of Atonement which fell on a Sabbath... In the staintes signed by the communities of Catalonia and Valencia September 25, 1354, the extermination of informers was made a public duty, in the accomplishment of which everyone was required to render his utmost assistance... [And later] when one was convicted of informing, he was branded on the forehead with a red not iron.... In Posen a Jewish informer is said...
...village elders of Marsella, 6,300 feet up in Colombia's Cauca Valley, weighed the arguments and gave consent -yes, it would be a good idea to give the district's youngsters inoculations against whooping cough and diphtheria. Thereupon, the traveling "sanitary educator," Roberto Agudelo Valencia, 32, jumped into his jeep, switched on the public-address system and drove around announcing a movie in the village square...
...Valencia, Venezuela...
Joys and Sorrows of Andalusia (Luis Maravilla, guitar; Pepe Valencia, voice; Westminster). The guitar is one instrument that sounds better on records than in the concert hall, and flamenco music, with its sensuality and its thumping outbursts, is the guitar's most exciting province. The vocal parts add an Oriental flavor. An Andrés Segovia Recital (Decca) is a more reflective guitar record: the soloist specializes in pure versions of Bach, Schubert and Mendelssohn...