To date, Buber's Basque Page has published 311 Basque Facts of the Week on topics including Euskara, People, Folklore, and History. Below is a list of Facts organized by topic.
Basque Fact of the Week Archive
art
- Agustín Ibarrola, Painter of Forests
(October 10, 2021) - Basque Superheroics
(September 22, 2019) - Caves and Caverns of the Basque Country
(January 31, 2021) - Cristina Iglesias and Her Newest Creation, Hondalea
(August 29, 2021) - Goya’s Basque Connection
(September 12, 2021) - Hilarriak, the Dead-Stones of the Basque Country
(November 14, 2021) - Jean Paul “Pablo” Tillac, Illustrator of the Basques
(August 21, 2022) - Maialen Lujanbio, Bertsolari Champion
(January 1, 2023) - The Basque Knot and the Basque Stitch
(December 15, 2024) - The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
(December 1, 2019) - Tree Carvings of the Sheepherders
(March 8, 2020)
diaspora
- A Basque in Lunch atop a Skyscraper
(March 21, 2021) - Basque Refugee Children in the UK
(June 5, 2022) - Canadian Hall of Fame Quarterback Sam Etcheverry
(February 13, 2022) - Charles de Salaberry, Hero of Canada
(March 13, 2022) - Domingo Bastanchury, the “Father of Fullerton”
(September 15, 2024) - Ignacio Berriochoa, Stonemason of Shoshone, Idaho
(June 4, 2023) - Juan Bautista de Anza I and II, Explorers of the North American West
(May 16, 2021) - Juan Zumárraga, First Bishop of Mexico
(June 6, 2021) - Juanita “Jay” Uberuaga Hormaechea
(May 5, 2024) - Lope Agirre, the Madman, the Wrath of God
(September 29, 2024) - Mayie Maitia and the Wool Growers Restaurant
(January 2, 2022) - Operations Kangaroo and Martha Brought Basques to Australia
(May 28, 2023) - Pedro Altube, Father of Basques in America
(November 6, 2022) - Robert Laxalt, the Voice of the American Basques
(January 8, 2023) - Saint Pierre and Miquelon
(March 14, 2021) - The Basque History of Boise
(October 3, 2021) - The Basque Sheepherder
(October 30, 2022) - The Basques of Bakersfield, California
(May 30, 2021) - The Boise Basque Museum and Cultural Center
(July 14, 2024) - The Conquest of the Americas
(October 11, 2020) - The History of the Basques in the West
(May 3, 2020) - The North American Basque Organizations Turns Fifty Years Old
(July 2, 2023) - Tree Carvings of the Sheepherders
(March 8, 2020) - Violence Finds Basque Sheepherders During the Sheep Wars
(June 27, 2021) - Winnemucca, Nevada, the Most Basque Town in the United States
(October 2, 2022)
euskadi
- Aitor Knives
(April 2, 2023) - Animals Unique to the Basque Country
(June 30, 2019) - Artxanda, a Green Oasis in Bilbo
(December 10, 2023) - Basque Refugee Children in the UK
(June 5, 2022) - Basque Science Innovation
(April 5, 2020) - Basque-ing in Green Energy
(February 16, 2020) - Bermeo, not Bilbao, was Originally the Capital of Bizkaia
(February 10, 2019) - Biarritz
(September 8, 2019) - Bilbo, the Capital of Bizkaia
(February 20, 2022) - Birds of the Basque Country
(September 22, 2024) - Butrón Castle
(January 30, 2022) - Donostia, the Capital of Gipuzkoa, Part 1: The City
(February 5, 2023) - Donostia, the Capital of Gipuzkoa, Part 2: Early History
(February 12, 2023) - Elantxobe, the Town Built into a Cliff
(October 8, 2023) - Euskadi is a “Strong Innovator”
(May 26, 2019) - How Eucalyptus Became Banned in Bizkaia
(September 3, 2023) - Igeldo, the Mount and the Neighborhood
(December 3, 2023) - Julen Zabaleta, Master Drawer
(June 26, 2022) - La Concha, the Iconic Beach of Donostia
(December 12, 2021) - La Perla Spa of Donostia
(November 5, 2023) - Mari Domingi, Olentzero’s Companion
(December 19, 2021) - Mount Oiz, the Balcony of Bizkaia
(August 27, 2023) - Mount Urgull
(November 12, 2023) - Mugalariak, the Basque Smugglers
(December 8, 2024) - Munitibar-Arbatzegi-Gerrikaitz
(January 16, 2022) - Mutiloa
(April 3, 2022) - My Great-Grandmother’s Home of Lekeitio
(October 22, 2023) - Pheasant Island, the Basque Island that is Part of both Spain and France
(July 31, 2022) - Picasso’s Guernica
(April 25, 2021) - Sancheski, Skateboard Pioneer
(March 6, 2022) - Spectacular Waterfalls of the Basque Country
(March 12, 2023) - The Agotes, Outcasts of the Western Pyrenees
(April 17, 2022) - The Basque City of Eibar
(October 24, 2021) - The Bizkaian Port of Bermeo
(August 13, 2023) - The Casco Viejo of Bilbo
(September 24, 2023) - The Collegiate of Zenarruza
(February 21, 2021) - The Deiadar (Hornblower) Mountains of Bizkaia
(February 7, 2021) - The Early History of Baiona
(November 13, 2022) - The Early History of Iruña/Pamplona
(June 18, 2023) - The First Tourist Guides of the Basque Country
(August 30, 2020) - The Flysch of Zumaia
(November 27, 2022) - The Fortress of Amaiur, Last Bastion of Nafarroa
(November 3, 2024) - The Garat Brothers, the Last Representatives of Lapurdi
(March 19, 2023) - The Heart of Donostia, La Parte Vieja
(November 19, 2023) - The History of Gernika
(March 3, 2024) - The House of Haro and the Lords of Bizkaia
(May 1, 2022) - The Laia, or Basque Spade
(October 8, 2024) - The Madalenas Fiesta of Bermeo, Mundaka, and Elantxobe
(August 20, 2023) - The Mondragón Corporation
(September 25, 2022) - The Most Popular Names in Bizkaia
(July 21, 2024) - The Quality of the Basque Government is High
(July 11, 2021) - The Rise of Basque Craft Beer
(January 29, 2023) - The River of Moonmilk in Gipuzkoa
(June 9, 2024) - The Salt Valley of Añana, the Oldest Active Salt Works in the World
(July 16, 2023) - The San Telmo Museum
(July 18, 2021) - The Surfing Mecca of Mundaka
(October 15, 2023) - The Tourist Paradise of Deba
(October 29, 2023) - The Way of St James in Euskal Herria
(March 26, 2023) - Universal Nobility of the Basques
(August 25, 2024) - Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve
(August 11, 2019) - What is the Difference between Euskadi, Euskal Herria, and the BAC?
(July 7, 2024) - Zazpiak Bat, the Basque Coat of Arms
(June 19, 2022) - Zugarramurdi, the Town of Witches
(May 15, 2022)
euskara
- A New Poem Written in Euskara Discovered
(March 7, 2021) - Arizona may be a Basque Word
(January 13, 2019) - Basque First Names
(June 28, 2020) - Basque has Mixed with Several Languages
(June 9, 2019) - Basque Ideophones
(April 12, 2020) - Basque Improvisational Poetry
(March 17, 2019) - Basque Originally Didn’t Have Separate Words for Blue, Grey and Green
(February 24, 2019) - Basque Surnames
(August 16, 2020) - Basque was only Standardized in the 1970s
(February 17, 2019) - Bizenta Mogel, First Woman to Write a Book in Basque
(August 4, 2024) - Concept of Emptiness in Basque
(August 9, 2020) - Days of the Week in Basque
(January 9, 2022) - Earliest Written Evidence of Euskara
(May 12, 2019) - Egunkaria, the First Basque-Only Daily Newspaper
(August 2, 2020) - Euskalkiak, the Dialects of Basque
(September 4, 2022) - Features of Basque Grammar
(May 19, 2024) - Gaurko Hitza, Basque Word of the Day
(August 15, 2021) - Good Birds to You!
(December 25, 2022) - Ikastolas, the Basque Schools
(December 8, 2019) - Izan and Egon, the Basque Verbs for “To Be”
(August 18, 2024) - Koldo Mitxelena, the Greatest Scholar of Basque
(March 24, 2024) - Korrika, The Race in Support of the Basque Language
(March 31, 2024) - Napoleon’s Nephew was a Linguist who Studied Basque
(September 11, 2022) - Native Basque Words for the Elements
(September 20, 2020) - Numbers and Counting in Basque
(May 29, 2022) - Possible Basque Origins for the Names of Several Native American Tribes
(February 6, 2022) - Proto-Basque, the Basque of 2000 Years Ago
(April 7, 2024) - Relatives of Flesh and Bone
(December 6, 2020) - Resurrección María de Azkue
(April 26, 2020) - Some Special Basque Words
(September 8, 2024) - Sounds in Euskara
(June 11, 2023) - The Basque Word ‘agur’
(January 3, 2021) - The Compass in Euskara
(November 10, 2024) - The Earliest Documentation of the Word “Euskara” is in the Name of a Basque-Muslim
(July 21, 2019) - The First Translation of the New Testament into Basque
(December 26, 2021) - The Hand of Irulegi, the Oldest Text in Euskara
(November 20, 2022) - The Most Popular Names in Bizkaia
(July 21, 2024) - The Strange Literal Meanings of Some Basque Words
(July 28, 2019) - Who was Larry Trask?
(June 23, 2024)
fiestas
- Day of San Blas
(February 2, 2020) - Jaialdi!
(February 9, 2020) - Korrika, The Race in Support of the Basque Language
(March 31, 2024) - Mari Domingi, Olentzero’s Companion
(December 19, 2021) - Oinkaris, the Basque Dancers of Boise
(January 12, 2020) - On January 20, Donostia Celebrates my Birthday… I mean, La Tamborrada
(January 20, 2019) - The Feria of Santo Tómas
(December 24, 2023) - The Joaldunak
(February 26, 2023) - The Madalenas Fiesta of Bermeo, Mundaka, and Elantxobe
(August 20, 2023)
fighting-basques
- The Gernika Battalion
(September 27, 2020)
film
- The San Sebastián International Film Festival
(September 18, 2022)
folklore
- Aideko, the Clouds that Bring Death
(June 16, 2024) - Akerbeltz
(May 2, 2021) - Amalur, Mother Earth
(December 31, 2023) - Argizaiolak, the Basque Funerary Candles
(July 14, 2019) - Aztikeria, Basque Magic
(September 6, 2020) - Basque Clothing through the Ages
(October 25, 2020) - Basque Funerary Customs
(November 7, 2021) - Basque Improvisational Poetry
(March 17, 2019) - Basque Proverbs
(September 19, 2021) - Caves and Caverns of the Basque Country
(January 31, 2021) - Discovery of an Altar to the Ancient Basque Deity Larrahe
(June 30, 2024) - Etsai, Axular, and Mikelats
(April 23, 2023) - Fire and Flame in Basque Culture
(June 12, 2022) - Gabonzuzi, The Basque Yule Log
(December 20, 2020) - Herensuge, the Basque Dragon
(May 26, 2024) - In Basque Mythology, Before Humans, There Was a Race of Giants
(April 14, 2019) - Inguma, the Bringer of Nightmares
(January 21, 2024) - Intxisua, Goblins of the Basque Country
(October 20, 2024) - Jaun Zuria, the White Lord
(May 8, 2022) - José Miguel de Barandiaran Ayerbe, the Great Patriarch of Basque Culture
(October 16, 2022) - Lamiak, the Basque Mermaids and Nymphs
(October 9, 2022) - Maialen Lujanbio, Bertsolari Champion
(January 1, 2023) - Mari, the Basque Mother Earth
(May 17, 2020) - Olentzero, the Basque Santa Claus
(December 22, 2019) - Pedro de Axular, the Man and the Myth
(January 7, 2024) - San Martin Txiki, the Basque Trickster
(January 17, 2021) - Sugaar, the Serpent-God Consort of Mari
(March 27, 2022) - Tartalo, the Basque Cyclops
(August 7, 2022) - Teodosio, the Knight of Goñi
(June 13, 2021) - The Basajaunak, the Wild Lords of the Forest
(March 28, 2021) - The Basque Farmhouse, or Baserri
(July 7, 2019) - The Basques and the Bees
(July 30, 2023) - The Black Hunter
(May 22, 2022) - The Concept of Being
(January 10, 2021) - The Entry to the Baserri
(April 16, 2023) - The Lauburu
(November 1, 2020) - The Mairu, or non-Christian Giants, in Basque Legends
(December 1, 2024) - The Makila, the Basque Walking Stick
(April 18, 2021) - The Summer Solstice
(June 21, 2020) - The Sun in the Basque Cosmos
(May 31, 2020)
food
- Basque Desserts for Your Holiday Spread
(December 18, 2022) - Basque Peppers
(November 8, 2020) - Basque Proverbs
(September 19, 2021) - Breakfast in the Baserri
(February 23, 2020) - Day of San Blas
(February 2, 2020) - Did a Typo Make Simon Gurtubay Rich?
(November 28, 2021) - Gazta! Cheese!
(August 23, 2020) - Hard Apple Cider once Dominated Basque Life
(March 3, 2019) - La Vina and Burnt Basque Cheesecake
(November 26, 2023) - Mayie Maitia and the Wool Growers Restaurant
(January 2, 2022) - Otorduak, Meals of the Day
(July 10, 2022) - Restaurateur Henri Soulé and La Côte Basque
(February 25, 2024) - The “Butter Buns” of Bilbao
(September 5, 2021) - The Basques and the Bees
(July 30, 2023) - The Rise of Basque Craft Beer
(January 29, 2023) - The Salt Valley of Añana, the Oldest Active Salt Works in the World
(July 16, 2023) - Txakolin, the Basque White Wine
(December 17, 2023) - Txokos, the Gastronomic Societies
(August 14, 2022) - Txorizo (Chorizo) and Txistorra
(February 11, 2024) - Unique Basque Drinks
(May 24, 2020)
history
- Ana María Bidegaray, the Basque Spy
(March 10, 2019) - Arizona may be a Basque Word
(January 13, 2019) - Basque Clothing through the Ages
(October 25, 2020) - Basque First Names
(June 28, 2020) - Basque Money
(January 26, 2020) - Basque Surnames
(August 16, 2020) - Basques and Chocolate
(May 19, 2019) - Basques and Costa Rica
(July 24, 2022) - Basques Immigrated to Wales
(March 24, 2019) - Bermeo, not Bilbao, was Originally the Capital of Bizkaia
(February 10, 2019) - Biarritz
(September 8, 2019) - Bilbo’s Iron Ring, a Defense that Failed
(January 14, 2024) - Blas de Lezo, Pegleg and Half-Man
(December 15, 2019) - Bromo, the Basque Double Agent of World War II
(July 4, 2021) - Butrón Castle
(January 30, 2022) - Catalina de Erauso, the Lieutenant Nun
(November 17, 2019) - Caves and Caverns of the Basque Country
(January 31, 2021) - Charles de Salaberry, Hero of Canada
(March 13, 2022) - Diego de Gardoqui, the Basque Friend of the American Revolution
(November 24, 2019) - Discovery of an Altar to the Ancient Basque Deity Larrahe
(June 30, 2024) - Earliest Written Evidence of Euskara
(May 12, 2019) - Egunkaria, the First Basque-Only Daily Newspaper
(August 2, 2020) - Eneko Arista, the First King of Pamplona
(March 10, 2024) - Etxekoandre, the Mother of the Home
(May 10, 2020) - Fire and Flame in Basque Culture
(June 12, 2022) - Florentino Goikoetxea, Smuggler of Allied Airmen in WWII
(January 23, 2022) - Gaspar de Jauregui, the Shepherd
(July 23, 2023) - Gernika Was Not the Only, nor Even the First, Basque Town Bombed During the Spanish Civil War
(April 28, 2019) - Heresy of Durango
(September 29, 2019) - Ikastolas, the Basque Schools
(December 8, 2019) - Jeanne d’Albret, the Queen of Nafarroa
(September 26, 2021) - Joaquin Murrieta, the Inspiration for Zorro
(October 27, 2019) - John Adams’s Basque Adventure
(July 5, 2020) - Jordan Valley, the Little Basque Town in Oregon
(August 25, 2019) - José Antonio Aguirre y Lecube, the First Basque President
(December 13, 2020) - Juan Bautista de Anza I and II, Explorers of the North American West
(May 16, 2021) - Juan Zumárraga, First Bishop of Mexico
(June 6, 2021) - Julio Eiguren, the Basque-American Spy
(June 7, 2020) - Legal to Kill Basques in Iceland
(November 10, 2019) - Luis de Unzaga, the Basque Who Coined the Phrase “United States of America”
(July 3, 2022) - Miguel de Unamuno
(December 4, 2022) - Mus, the Basque Card Game
(June 20, 2021) - Old Basque Documents in the Americas
(March 1, 2020) - Other Basque Cities Were Bombed During the Spanish Civil War
(May 9, 2021) - Paulino Uzcudun, the “Basque Woodchopper”
(March 29, 2020) - Pheasant Island, the Basque Island that is Part of both Spain and France
(July 31, 2022) - Picasso’s Guernica
(April 25, 2021) - Saint Pierre and Miquelon
(March 14, 2021) - Selma Huxley Barkham, Basque-Canadian Historian
(June 14, 2020) - Seroras, the Women Caretakers of the Church
(October 20, 2019) - Simón Bolívar, the Liberator, had Roots in Bizkaia
(April 7, 2019) - Subh the Basque – Slave, Concubine, and Ruler of Córdoba
(June 2, 2024) - The ‘basque’
(December 27, 2020) - The Agotes, Outcasts of the Western Pyrenees
(April 17, 2022) - The Aquitanians, Ancestors of the Basques
(October 18, 2020) - The Basque Farmhouse, or Baserri
(July 7, 2019) - The Basque History of Boise
(October 3, 2021) - The Basque Ice Cream Maker
(August 18, 2019) - The Bizkaian Port of Bermeo
(August 13, 2023) - The Boise Basque Museum and Cultural Center
(July 14, 2024) - The Bombing of Munitibar
(September 17, 2023) - The Concept of Being
(January 10, 2021) - The Conquest of the Americas
(October 11, 2020) - The Deiadar (Hornblower) Mountains of Bizkaia
(February 7, 2021) - The Democratic Biltzar of Lapurdi
(April 28, 2024) - The Disappearance of Jesús Galíndez Suárez
(May 23, 2021) - The Earliest Documentation of the Word “Euskara” is in the Name of a Basque-Muslim
(July 21, 2019) - The Early History of Baiona
(November 13, 2022) - The First Person to (Intentionally) Sail Around the World was Basque
(March 31, 2019) - The Gernika Battalion
(September 27, 2020) - The Great Basque Anthropologist, Ethnologist, and Historian Julio Caro Baroja
(October 23, 2022) - The Hand of Irulegi, the Oldest Text in Euskara
(November 20, 2022) - The History of Gernika
(March 3, 2024) - The History of the Basques in the West
(May 3, 2020) - The House of Haro and the Lords of Bizkaia
(May 1, 2022) - The Massacre of La Hoya
(November 29, 2020) - The Matxinadas, the Peasant Revolts
(May 7, 2023) - The Muslim Banu Qasi Dynasty
(February 18, 2024) - The Paleolithic Art of the Ekain Cave
(November 17, 2024) - The Prince of Wales Nearly Became the Lord of Bizkaia
(October 4, 2020) - The Revolt of the Priest Matalaz
(December 11, 2022) - The Sanchos of Pamplona
(April 11, 2021) - The Sanctuary of Arantzazu
(November 3, 2019) - The Song of Roland is Really about the Basques
(January 27, 2019) - The Tree of Gernika
(September 1, 2019) - The War of the Bands
(April 19, 2020) - Today is Aberri Eguna, or Basque Fatherland Day
(April 21, 2019) - Tomas Zumalakarregi, Carlist Leader and Inventor of Tortilla
(June 25, 2023) - Trees in Basque Politics and Religion
(March 15, 2020) - Zazpiak Bat, the Basque Coat of Arms
(June 19, 2022)
misc
- 52 Weeks of Basque Facts
(December 29, 2019) - Buber’s Basque Page is 25 Years Old
(January 5, 2020)
music
- Basque Radical Rock
(July 19, 2020) - Composer Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga
(January 28, 2024) - Fermín Muguruza, Kortatu, and Negu Gorriak
(October 27, 2024) - Ravel Began, But Never Finished, a Basque-Themed Concerto
(August 4, 2019) - The Flute and Drum, the Basque One-Person Band
(April 4, 2021) - The Irrintzi, the Basque Cry
(May 12, 2024) - Txalaparta
(June 16, 2019)
people
- A Basque in Lunch atop a Skyscraper
(March 21, 2021) - Ana María Bidegaray, the Basque Spy
(March 10, 2019) - Anton Abadia, the Basque Scientist Who Promoted Basque Culture
(August 28, 2022) - Basque Adventurer Marga d’Andurain
(April 24, 2022) - Basque Brothers Discover Tungsten
(January 6, 2019) - Basque Stone Lifters
(May 5, 2019) - Bizenta Mogel, First Woman to Write a Book in Basque
(August 4, 2024) - Blas de Lezo, Pegleg and Half-Man
(December 15, 2019) - Bromo, the Basque Double Agent of World War II
(July 4, 2021) - Canadian Hall of Fame Quarterback Sam Etcheverry
(February 13, 2022) - Catalina de Erauso, the Lieutenant Nun
(November 17, 2019) - Composer Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga
(January 28, 2024) - Cosme Damián de Churruca y Elorza, Scientist and Sailor
(February 27, 2022) - Cristina Iglesias and Her Newest Creation, Hondalea
(August 29, 2021) - Cristóbal Balenciaga Eizaguirre
(October 6, 2019) - Did a Typo Make Simon Gurtubay Rich?
(November 28, 2021) - Diego de Gardoqui, the Basque Friend of the American Revolution
(November 24, 2019) - Domingo Bastanchury, the “Father of Fullerton”
(September 15, 2024) - Eneko Arista, the First King of Pamplona
(March 10, 2024) - Fashion Designer Paco Rabanne
(March 5, 2023) - Félix Erausquin, a Champion Thrower
(March 22, 2020) - Fermín Muguruza, Kortatu, and Negu Gorriak
(October 27, 2024) - Florentino Goikoetxea, Smuggler of Allied Airmen in WWII
(January 23, 2022) - Former MLB All-Star, Andy Etchebarren, Dies at Age 76
(October 13, 2019) - Francisco de Vitoria, Father of International Law
(November 24, 2024) - Gaspar de Jauregui, the Shepherd
(July 23, 2023) - Goya’s Basque Connection
(September 12, 2021) - Ignacio Berriochoa, Stonemason of Shoshone, Idaho
(June 4, 2023) - Iñaki Williams, Athletic Bilbao Striker
(September 15, 2019) - Jean Borotra, the Bounding Basque
(January 24, 2021) - Jeanne d’Albret, the Queen of Nafarroa
(September 26, 2021) - Joaquin Murrieta, the Inspiration for Zorro
(October 27, 2019) - John Adams’s Basque Adventure
(July 5, 2020) - John Ascuaga
(August 8, 2021) - José Antonio Aguirre y Lecube, the First Basque President
(December 13, 2020) - José Francisco Tellería Uribe, the Quack of Gipuzkoa
(July 9, 2023) - Jose Mari Iparragirre, the Man Behind The Tree of Gernika
(November 22, 2020) - José Miguel de Barandiaran Ayerbe, the Great Patriarch of Basque Culture
(October 16, 2022) - Juan Bautista de Anza I and II, Explorers of the North American West
(May 16, 2021) - Juan Zumárraga, First Bishop of Mexico
(June 6, 2021) - Juanita “Jay” Uberuaga Hormaechea
(May 5, 2024) - Julen Zabaleta, Master Drawer
(June 26, 2022) - Julio Eiguren, the Basque-American Spy
(June 7, 2020) - Kattalin Agirre, Member of the French Resistance
(April 10, 2022) - Koldo Mitxelena, the Greatest Scholar of Basque
(March 24, 2024) - Lehendakari José Antonio Ardanza
(April 21, 2024) - Lope Agirre, the Madman, the Wrath of God
(September 29, 2024) - Luis de Unzaga, the Basque Who Coined the Phrase “United States of America”
(July 3, 2022) - Maritxu Anatol Arístegui of the Comet Line
(April 30, 2023) - Martija de Jauregui, Healer and Trailblazer of the 16th Century
(October 13, 2024) - Miguel de Unamuno
(December 4, 2022) - Miguel Indurain, One of the Greatest Cyclists Ever
(June 23, 2019) - Mikel Jokin Eleizegi Arteaga, the Basque Giant
(November 15, 2020) - Monica Bertagnolli, Granddaughter of Basque Immigrants, Nominated to Lead NIH
(May 21, 2023) - My Uncle Tio Joe
(October 1, 2023) - Napoleon’s Nephew was a Linguist who Studied Basque
(September 11, 2022) - Old Basque Documents in the Americas
(March 1, 2020) - Paulino Uzcudun, the “Basque Woodchopper”
(March 29, 2020) - Pedro de Axular, the Man and the Myth
(January 7, 2024) - Pedro Etxenike, Physicist
(August 6, 2023) - Pete Cenarrusa
(February 14, 2021) - Pierre Hérigone, an Actual Basque Mathematician
(December 5, 2021) - Pío Baroja y Nessi
(January 22, 2023) - Ravel Began, But Never Finished, a Basque-Themed Concerto
(August 4, 2019) - Restaurateur Henri Soulé and La Côte Basque
(February 25, 2024) - Resurrección María de Azkue
(April 26, 2020) - Robert Laxalt, the Voice of the American Basques
(January 8, 2023) - Saint Francis Xavier
(November 21, 2021) - Saint Ignatius, Founder of the Jesuits
(July 25, 2021) - Selma Huxley Barkham, Basque-Canadian Historian
(June 14, 2020) - Simón Bolívar, the Liberator, had Roots in Bizkaia
(April 7, 2019) - Subh the Basque – Slave, Concubine, and Ruler of Córdoba
(June 2, 2024) - The “Basque Spitfire” Yolande Betbeze, Miss America 1951
(February 19, 2023) - The Adán de Yarza Family of Bizkaia
(September 1, 2024) - The Basque Fox, the Last French Corsair
(February 3, 2019) - The Basque Ice Cream Maker
(August 18, 2019) - The Conquest of the Americas
(October 11, 2020) - The Disappearance of Jesús Galíndez Suárez
(May 23, 2021) - The Earliest Documentation of the Word “Euskara” is in the Name of a Basque-Muslim
(July 21, 2019) - The First Person to (Intentionally) Sail Around the World was Basque
(March 31, 2019) - The First Translation of the New Testament into Basque
(December 26, 2021) - The Garat Brothers, the Last Representatives of Lapurdi
(March 19, 2023) - The Great Basque Anthropologist, Ethnologist, and Historian Julio Caro Baroja
(October 23, 2022) - The Seven Mummies of the Basque Country
(March 17, 2024) - Tomas Zumalakarregi, Carlist Leader and Inventor of Tortilla
(June 25, 2023) - Uberuaga Island
(February 4, 2024) - Was the Mathematician Pierre de Fermat Basque?
(October 31, 2021) - Who was Larry Trask?
(June 23, 2024)
politics
- Lehendakari José Antonio Ardanza
(April 21, 2024) - Pedro Etxenike, Physicist
(August 6, 2023) - Pete Cenarrusa
(February 14, 2021)
sports
- Basque Athletes at the Olympic Games in Paris
(July 28, 2024) - Basque Athletes at the Paralympics
(August 22, 2021) - Basque Stone Lifters
(May 5, 2019) - Basque Ultra-running
(January 19, 2020) - Basques at the 2021 Olympics
(August 1, 2021) - Canadian Hall of Fame Quarterback Sam Etcheverry
(February 13, 2022) - Félix Erausquin, a Champion Thrower
(March 22, 2020) - Handball
(July 12, 2020) - How Did the Basques Do at the Olympics?
(August 11, 2024) - Iñaki Williams, Athletic Bilbao Striker
(September 15, 2019) - Itzulia Basque Country, the Tour of the Basque Country
(April 9, 2023) - Jai Alai
(July 17, 2022) - Jon Rahm, Number 1 Golfer in the World
(July 26, 2020) - La Gabarra, A Victory Parade Like No Other
(April 14, 2024) - Lucas Eguibar Bretón, Snowboard Cross World Champion
(February 28, 2021) - Pelota Mano, or Basque Handball
(September 10, 2023) - Pelota Vasca
(March 20, 2022) - The Basque Derby
(January 15, 2023) - Trainera Rowing Regattas, or Estropadak
(September 13, 2020) - Tug of War or Sokatira
(October 17, 2021) - Zegama and the Golden Trail World Series
(May 14, 2023)
tattoos
- Lucas Eguibar Bretón, Snowboard Cross World Champion
(February 28, 2021)
travel
- The Way of St James in Euskal Herria
(March 26, 2023)