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Basque Fact of the Week, Diaspora, People

Basque Fact of the Week: John Arrillaga, Stanford’s Biggest Fan

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Basque names have a way of jumping out at you. I was recently attending a workshop at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, situated on the Stanford University campus, when someone mentioned the Arrillaga rec center. “Arrillaga?” I thought to myself. “Has to be Basque.” Sure enough, John Arrillaga, one of Stanford’s biggest supporters ever, was […]

Basque Fact of the Week, Diaspora

Basque Fact of the Week: Zortziak Bat International Symposium on the Basque Diaspora and Cultural Expressions

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The Basque diaspora – those Basques that have found themselves for a multitude of reasons living and building lives outside of the Basque Country – have made significant contributions to the continued health and prosperity of Basque culture. Inspired by the motto Zazpiak Bat – the seven are one – the phrase Zortziak Bat has […]

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 […]