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Basque Fact of the Week, People

Basque Fact of the Week: Gabriela Mistral, Nobel Poet and Basque Mestiza

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Born in the United States, I’m of course very familiar wth the Basque diaspora of the American West. What I didn’t know so much about is the large Basque presence and heritage in other parts of the Americas. Many people of Basque heritage made important contributions not only to their own countries but to the […]

History, People

A traveling exhibit on Santiago Ramon y Cajal

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I first learned about Santiago Ramón y Cajal from Vince Juaristi’s great book Basque Firsts: People Who Changed the World. Ramón y Cajal, a Spanish scientist born in Nafarroa, was the father of modern neuroscience, developing the neuron doctrine of the brain that said the brain was composed of neurons connected by synapses. In his work, […]