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Basque Proverb of the Week

Basque Proverb of the Week: Proverb #24

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Arranoak lumak behar, txepetxak ere bai. The eagle needs feathers, and the wren does too.

Basque Fact of the Week, Music

Basque Fact of the Week: The Folk Band Oskorri

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I’ve written about how, when I returned from my year in the Basque Country, I sort of shocked my dad by playing some Basque punk. However, I also came back with some folk music, including Oskorri. This, my dad could get in to. When he left the Basque Country, they didn’t have recordings of all […]

Basque Proverb of the Week

Basque Proverb of the Week: Proverb #23

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Arian, arian, zehetzen da burnia. Working and working at it, iron can be pulverized.

Basque Fact of the Week, People

Basque Fact of the Week: Basque Intellectual Joxe Azurmendi

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While the Basque Country has seemingly punched above its weight in terms of its contributions to history, its contributions to philosophy are perhaps less well known. On July 1, the Basque Country lost one of its heavyweights. Joxe Azurmendi was one of the intellectual leaders of the modern Basque Country. It is impossible to do […]

Basque Proverb of the Week

Basque Proverb of the Week: Proverb #22

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Ardiak beeka egonik, ez du jaten belarrik. A bleating sheep eats no grass.

Basque Fact of the Week, Euskadi

Basque Fact of the Week: The Industrial Town of Ermua

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The three Basque cities I’ve spent the most time in are Donostia, Munitibar, and Ermua. My dad’s sister and her family settled in Ermua as that is where the job was – her husband worked for the knife company Aitor until he retired. Ermua maybe doesn’t have the charm of the coastal cities, but it […]

Fighting Basques

Martin Aguirre y Otegui, Basque “Righteous Among the Nations,” Celebrates His 100th Birthday

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This article was written by Pedro Oiarzabal. Martin, born on July 4, 1925, in Las Arenas, Getxo (Bizkaia), was one of the thousands of children evacuated by the Basque government in June 1937 to escape the aerial bombardments perpetrated by General Francisco Franco’s Italian and German allies against the civilian population. Martin and two younger […]

Basque Proverb of the Week

Basque Proverb of the Week: Proverb #21

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Ardi txikia, beti bildots. The small sheep, always a lamb.

Basque Fact of the Week, History, People

Basque Fact of the Week: Pierre de Lancre, Basque Hunter of Basque Witches

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It is seemingly part of human nature that we most vehemently attack that which is somehow a part of us. Pierre de Lancre was no different. One of the most infamous persecutors of Basque witches, he himself had Basque ancestry, an ancestry that his family seemed to deny. De Lancre felt that all aspects of […]

Basque Proverb of the Week

Basque Proverb of the Week: Proverb #20

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Ardi galdua atzeman daiteke, aldi galdua berriz ez. One may recover a lost sheep, but not lost time.