Peninsular Quotes

If Sawtooth could put words to the brambled knot forming in his throat, he would tell her: Girl, don't go. I am marooned in this place without you. What I feel for you is more than love. It's stronger, peninsular. You connect me to the Mainland. You are my leg of land over dark water.

Myth is the isthmus which connects the peninsular world of thought with that vast continent we really belong to. It is not, like truth, abstract; nor is it, like direct experience, bound to the particular.

But the veterans of the Peninsular War remarked approvingly that rain was always an Englishman’s friend in times of war. They told their comrades: “There is nothing so comforting or familiar to us, you see – whereas other nations it baffles.

I mean, when you've got used to a club where everything's nice and cheery, and where, if you want to attract a chappie's attention, you heave a piece of bread at him, it kind of damps you to come to a place where the youngest member is about eighty-seven and it isn't considered good form to talk to anyone unless you and he went through the Peninsular War together.

If Peking wasn’t stopped in the peninsular war, he argued, China would be recognized as “the military colossus of the East.” U.S. prestige would plummet, and the world’s new nations would gravitate toward neutralism.

You know where the word shrapnel comes from?” “Where?” “An eighteenth-century British guy named Henry Shrapnel.” “Really?” “He was a captain in their artillery for eight years. Then he invented an exploding shell, and they promoted him to major. The Duke of Wellington used the shell in the Peninsular Wars, and at the Battle of Waterloo.

With his pinned-back ears and face suffused with strong, hard-to-read feelings, Bowie looked sleek and dangerous briefly, belying the neatness, the pampered hands.

The Balkans I know is the Balkans from below: a space of bogoumils- these medieval heretics who fought against the Crusades and churches- and a place of anti-Ottoman resistance; a home to hajduks and klephts, pirates and rebels; a refuge of feminists and socialists, of antifascist and partisans; a place of dreamers of all sorts struggling both against provincial "peninsularity" as well as against occupations, foreign interventions and that process which is now, in a strange inversion of history, often described with that fashionable phrase, "balkanization." (p.11)

Saímos, com efeito, de uma evolução natural, mas desde que ingressamos no mundo da cultura, as nossas relações com a natureza tornaram-se mediatizadas, misturadas com o 'ruído' ideológico. É porque nos afastamos da natureza que queremos reencontrá-la. Entretanto, não podemos reencontrar a unidade perdida, nem um 'saber reconciliado'. O pensamento humano é algo singular, bizarro, no Univerno; ele não reflete o real, ele o traduz, não reflete o mundo, faz uma representação dele. Não podemos pôr fim a essa alienação, o nosso estranhamento com essa natureza, que é contudo nossa mãe/madrasta. É preciso romper com a visão sobrenatural e insular do homem, mas não podemos romper com nossa situação peninsular e biocultural.

To Kevin’s surprise, Cassandra was able to make the right gesture to cue a display of data about the squirrels in question. “Just as I thought,” she said. “Non-native. The Eleventh Duke of Bedfordshire was responsible for introducing them from America in 1890. Since then they’ve all but wiped out the native red squirrel in England and Wales. Do you know, I never did think much of the Bedfordshires,” she said. “I knew the Sixth Duke. A ne’er-do-well, in my view. He was a Bonapartist, and he was opposed to the Peninsular War.

En el vértice de la pirámide se ubicaban los blancos peninsulares, para quienes estaba destinado el Poder Político; luego los blancos criollos, que llegaron a detentar el Poder Económico, y algo del Poder Político en la institución del Cabildo; y en la base, los pardos y los esclavos que, naturalmente, conformaban la mayoría de la población. Como vemos, la sociedad colonial venezolana fue «pluricultural y multiétnica».

Durban has the largest Indian population outside of India! The Afro-Indian Culture that ensued has become a strong influence on the people of South Africa who have adopted many of the Indian traditions. This is especially true of how food is prepared! Of course rice is the preferred carb and considered a stable with most meals. An Indian curry stew is an exciting taste treat. Relatively simple to make, fresh garlic and ginger pulp are lightly fried along with chilies, onions and a zesty curry powder. Added to this are chopped tomatoes and finally the meat, seafood or vegetable of your choice. After slow simmering, the spicy stew is served with steamed rice and perhaps a hot and spicy chili sauce condiment called a sambal. Sweet and sour condiments called chutney are made of unripe mangoes, raisins, limes, sliced bananas and other fruit.. Of course Major Grey's Chutney can be bought ready-made and is considered by many as the best of all chutneys. Many of the curried foods thought of as Indian are actually of Indonesian origin and are also popular on the Malaysian Peninsular and in many other eastern countries.

Cuidémonos, sin embargo, de entender que eso significaba igualdad, pues los indios fueron declarados inmaduros, como menores de edad, y con ello se les impusieron muchas limitaciones jurídicas y, sobre todo, una marcada inferioridad social. También los españoles americanos habrían de sufrir desventajas frente a los peninsulares.

The Valenzuelas cherished that poisonous criollo obsession with casta, the belief that any non-peninsular heritage spoiled what was desirable and pure. “They disowned her for marrying a mestizo.

Economics, environment & society: Are they always in conflict? Can they go in tandem? Welcome to an intellectually stimulating exercise in urban planning and sustainability. This book discusses these and other relevant issues in various occasions such as spatial identity formation in cases of Asian urban identities and in the case of the planning of a peninsular town in Vietnam, in terms of biodiversity and ethics in an urban context among others. You will not regret to read this book if you are one of those who have been amazed by rapid urbanization and the challenges and opportunities coming along.

almost

As Guerras de Independência na América Latina As revoluções na França e na América do Norte, juntamente com as ideias liberais do Iluminismo, também inspiraram as colônias espanholas nas Américas a lutar por independência. De 1808 a 1825, a independência foi proclamada em toda a América do Sul e em quase toda a América Central, onde a Espanha continuou controlando apenas as ilhas de Cuba e Porto Rico (que permaneceram sob seu domínio até 1898). Os conflitos foram desencadeados em 1808, quando José Bonaparte, irmão de Napoleão, depôs a monarquia espanhola durante a Guerra Peninsular (também conhecida como Invasões Francesas). A ocupação francesa destruiu a administração espanhola, que se fracionou em juntas provinciais, e uma confusão geral se estabeleceu. Muitas das colônias espanholas se consideraram capazes de nomear suas próprias juntas, o que acabou provocando conflitos entre os patriotas, que propunham a autonomia, e os monarquistas, que ainda acreditavam na autoridade da Espanha.

The reach and wealth of such Andhra mahanavika sea captains are clear from the gold seal of one such Buddhist captain which was found as far away as the western coast of peninsular Thailand.95

All Americans were immigrants at one point or another,” he explained in his letters to his parents. Even his father Manuel migrated to Puerto Rico. Manuel was deemed a Peninsular, an immigrant from Spain, and sometimes even the Puerto Rican-born, the criollos, resented the Spanish-born newcomers. Manuel was familiar with being singled out, although not quite as much as Antonio felt while in New York. “It is amazing how people tend to forget their past,” Antonio wrote to his parents, surprised. “I recall what you told me about Maestro Rafael, Papá, when he said to you ‘never forget your history.

I tried to compose a letter to my father this morning, while you beavered away on my mundane business, and somehow, Mrs. Seaton, I could not come up with words to adequately convey to my father the extent to which I want him to just leave me the hell alone.” He finished that statement through clenched teeth, alarming Anna with the animosity in his tone, but he wasn’t finished. “I have come to the point,” the earl went on, “where I comprehend why my older brothers would consider the Peninsular War preferable to the daily idiocy that comes with being Percival Windham’s heir. I honestly believe that could he but figure a way to pull it off, my father would lock me naked in a room with the woman of his choice, there to remain until I got her pregnant with twin boys. And I am not just frustrated”—the earl’s tone took on a sharper edge—“I am ready to do him an injury, because I don’t think anything less will make an impression. Two unwilling people are going to wed and have a child because my father got up to tricks.” “Your father did not force those two people into one another’s company all unawares and blameless, my lord, but why not appeal to your mother? By reputation, she is the one who can control him.” The earl shook his head. “Her Grace is much diminished by the loss of my brother Victor. I do not want to importune her, and she will believe His Grace only meant well.” Anna smiled ruefully. “And she wants grandchildren, too, of course.” “Why, of course.” The earl gestured impatiently. “She had eight children and still has six. There will be grandchildren, and if for some reason the six of us are completely remiss, I have two half siblings, whose children she will graciously spoil, as well.” “Good heavens,” Anna murmured. “So your father has sired ten children, and yet he plagues you?” “He does. Except for the one daughter of Victor’s, none of us have seen fit to reproduce. There was a rumor Bart had left us something to remember him by, but he likely started the rumor himself just to aggravate my father.

Get rid of it,” he said, settling the hilt of the knife in her palm. “I’ll get you a lady’s version of a pocket pistol and teach you how to use it, unless you’d rather approach one of your brothers to see to it.” “My brothers?” “St. Just would be best suited to the task.” Devlin St. Just was a decorated cavalry officer, one who’d been awarded an earldom for his exploits in the Peninsular War. Or for being a duke’s firstborn bastard. “He’s gone back North, where he’s likely to stay,” Miss Windham said. “If you can spare the time, I will take my instruction from you. But I hardly think your purpose in meeting me tonight was to accost me with a knife.” “Of

in.’ Kellock hauled his huge mass over the driver’s seat and across the gearstick to the passenger seat. Jarrett climbed in after him, first motioning the shotgun at Ellen and Pam. ‘We’ve leaving now. You two won’t try to stop us.’ Ellen said, ‘Don’t do this, Laurie,’ and Pam began to circle around him. In answer, he shot out the tyres of their car. They froze, their insides spasming, pellets and grit spitting and pinging. He said again, ‘You won’t stop me.’ Ellen glanced around at Pam, who gave her a complicated look. ‘We won’t stop you,’ she murmured. The Toyota threw gravel at them as it started away but it wasn’t speeding. It moved sedately through the trees, exhaust toxins hanging in the still air, and they heard it pause at the main road above, and turn right. Waterloo lay in that direction, where the land levelled out to meet the sea. But before that there were many other roads, and back roads, full

El último cuarto del siglo VI tuvo extraordinaria importancia para los destinos del reino visigodo. Establecida la capital en Toledo, el reino toledano —que así pudo llamarse desde entonces— extendió de modo efectivo su poder sobre casi toda la Península por obra de un gran monarca, Leovigildo, que anexionó también a sus dominios el reino suevo de Galicia, que sobrevivía independiente en el noroeste peninsular desde la época de las invasiones. El hijo de Leovigildo, Recaredo, fue el promotor de la conversión de su pueblo al catolicismo, iniciando así la época de la Monarquía visigodo-católica, que se prolongó hasta principios del siglo VIII. El siglo VII presenció en España un notable florecimiento cultural, cuyo máximo exponente fue san Isidoro de Sevilla. Ese siglo revistió también extraordinaria importancia desde el punto de vista constitucional, con la institucionalización de la Monarquía electiva; eclesiástico, por la reunión de la célebre serie de concilios toledanos; y jurídico, por la promulgación de un gran código de legislación civil.

Bok Tower stands 205 feet upon the highest point in peninsular Florida. It is an unforgettable sight, a stone monument rising alone on a pristine ridge called Iron Mountain, near the center of the state. “The Singing Tower,” as it is known, features a fifty-seven-bell carillon, the centerpiece of the tranquil Bok Tower Gardens, a meditative retreat of unmatched serenity.

Pero nadie habla esa lengua estándar de manera natural. Solamente, de manera artificial, se acomodan los registros en los medios de comunicación masivos como la televisión o los periódicos de un país con fines comunicativos, nacionalistas o unificadores. Para lo cual, canales internacionales como BBC o CNN, o las mismas Un¡visión o TVE unifican desde su libro de estilo un registro estándar de inglés británico, inglés norteamericano, español americano y peninsular, respectivamente.

Gregorio Angulo y Ante, fue un ferviente realista criollo como otros miembros de su familia, natural de Popayán (1759) Presidencia de Quito, Virreynato de Nueva Granada, su gentilicio es quitense, muchas veces funcionario público, desde alcalde ordinario de Popayán, hasta procurador, pasando por jefe de la compañía de Dragones con grado de capitán; cuñado de Francisco José de Caldas “el sabio”, por ser esposo de su hermana Gertrudis Caldas; y quien en la célebre masacre quiteña del 2 de agosto de 1810, al enterarse de que varios separatistas habían asaltado el cuartel donde se hallaba alojado el regimiento “real de Lima”, se encaminó al contiguo cuartel de Santa Fe y ordenó que con el también famoso cañonazo se abriera la pared divisoria entre los dos cuarteles, para que bajo sus órdenes el Santa Fe pidiera irse encima de los presos y así iniciara la masacre perpetrada por una prácticamente totalidad de soldados americanos, criollos, pardos (estos tratados por muchos historiadores ecuatorianos con un desprecio racista único) y mestizos, demostrando así, una vez más, el carácter de Guerra Civil que mantuvo toda la conflagración para separar a los reinos hispánicos americanos de los peninsulares.

Peninsula Freeway, and another off Penzance Beach Road, which wound in a dizzying climb high above sea level. She slowed for an intersection, the light green. She should make a right turn here, but that meant giving way to the oncoming traffic, which was streaming indifferently towards her, and what if some maniac failed to stop before she completed the turn? She tried to swallow. Her mouth was very dry. Someone sounded their horn at her. She continued through the intersection without turning. All those people there last Saturday, as close as bodies can get to one another, yet Janine hadn’t expected, sought or found any kind of togetherness. She knew from past experience that the other couples would look out for each other, the wives watching out for their husbands, always with a smile, a kiss, a comforting or loving caress, ‘Just checking that you’re happy’ kind of thing, and the husbands checking on how their wives were doing, ‘Are you okay? Love you’ kind of thing, even stopping to have sex with them before moving on to another play area. But that wasn’t Robert’s style. He would never so much as say ‘Enjoy yourself’ but go after the single women and younger wives, a glint of grasping need in his eyes, and last Saturday hadn’t been any different. He’d kept her there until three in the morning, long after most of the others had gone home. ‘Mum?’ ‘What?’ ‘Can I have a Happy Meal for lunch?’ ‘We’ll see.’ Beside her, Georgia began to sing. It had taken her husband about three months to wear her down. When he’d first proposed attending one of the parties, late last year, Janine had thought he was joking, but it soon became clear that he wasn’t. She’d felt vaguely discomfited, more from the tawdriness and risk of exposure than realising he probably didn’t want her sexually any more. ‘Why do you want to have sex with other women besides me?’ she’d asked, putting on a bit of a quiver. ‘But

El principal elemento de cohesión política que, de forma obsesiva, buscaron los Austrias para articular su imperio no fue, por lo tanto, la lengua, sino más bien la fe cristiana. Era la religión católica el nexo común que unánimemente se reconocía en todos los reinos peninsulares, a pesar de las diferencias políticas, institucionales, culturales o lingüísticas que existían entre ellos. Y era también la religión cristiana el leitmotiv que había articulado la historia de esos reinos durante los siglos precedentes, marcados por una lucha contra el islam de la que todos ellos habían salido «victoriosos» de una forma u otra. Llevada un poco más lejos esa misma idea, también podía argüirse con argumentos muy sólidos que había sido la defensa de la religión católica por parte de los soberanos hispanos la causa de que la Providencia hubiera puesto en sus manos los inmensos territorios trasatlánticos, habitados por gentes de las que nadie había oído hablar hasta entonces, pero cuya cristianización pasaba a convertirse, por lo tanto, en una obligación no sólo política y moral, sino también histórica.

Like so many other French generals in the Peninsula, he was soon to find that victory is not the same thing as conquest.

Es lo que le debe América a Napoleón. En aquel instante sonó una doble campanada de independencia: una, en España misma, para expulsar a Bonaparte, y otra, en América, para expulsar al régimen español. Los hispanos derrotarán a Napoleón, pero serán derrotados en América por los hombres de sus colonias: He aquí la epopeya de la libertad en sus dos fases: la faz peninsular, por su independencia, y la faz americana, por la suya propia.

In the language of genetics, the Harappans contributed to the formation of the Ancestral South Indians by moving south and mixing with the First Indians of peninsular India and also to the formation of the Ancestral North Indians by mixing with the incoming ‘Aryans’. Therefore, in many ways, they are the cultural glue that keeps India together – or the sauce on the pizza, to build on a metaphor that we used earlier.

¿Qué ocurrió en la Sefarad cristiana tras decretar el IV Concilio de Letrán en 1215 el distintivo para los judíos? Al principio, esa y otras normas conciliares no fueron aplicadas por los monarcas peninsulares; tampoco la sentencia condenatoria del Talmud dictada en París en 1240 influyó de inmediato en la Península Ibérica. Pero conforme avanzaba el siglo XIII esta actitud comenzó a cambiar.

Con todo, la lucha de los representantes de América fue un factor decisivo en la liberalización del régimen colonial. En un pliego de peticiones resumieron los agravios más importantes de las colonias. Pedían, en síntesis: igual representación a cortes para España y América; libertad de explotación agrícola e industrial; libertad de comercio; supresión de los estancos; libertad de explotación minera; igualdad en la distribución de empleos entre peninsulares y americanos, y restitución de los jesuitas.

—Debes presentarte como mi psiquiatra, él me conoce bien. Dile que he perdido mi teléfono móvil con toda la agenda, pero que es muy importante que hablemos. Que se conecte a su cuenta de Skype esta tarde a las 18 horas, hora peninsular. Le estaré esperando online. ¿Lo tienes?

El año del nacimiento de Rodríguez, la ciudad de Caracas se aproximaba a los 25.000 habitantes.[4] Había en ella, como en el resto de Venezuela, una estratificación étnico-social que, para todo el país, hallábase clasificada así (hacia el año 1800): blancos peninsulares y canarios y blancos criollos, el 20,3 por ciento; pardos, negros libres y manumisos y negros esclavos, el 61,3 por ciento; negros cimarrones, indios tributarios, indios no tributarios y población indígena marginal, el 18,4 por ciento.[5] La descripción de la ciudad la hicieron tanto el historiador José Oviedo y Baños como Alejandro Humboldt, en muy notable coincidencia de detalles.

born from the treaty of Versailles in the wake of the collapse of the empires. In these states, Jews embodied modernity and polarized the rejection of conservative forces. In France, they became the target of legitimists and nationalists opposed to the Third Republic; in Italy, of Catholics horrified by the Piedmont monarchy that had led the peninsular’s unification; in Germany, of conservatives who sought to preserve the Christian character of the Prussian monarchy. After

I have seen more courage on this peninsular by men who will never be decorated for it. It takes all forms, and one does not have to be in the illustrious 11th to possess it, I assure you, Rowan. For me, courage is to now stand up and say I have had enough of soldiering. I shall not bring my sons up to be inevitable warriors, neither shall I force Bel’s boy into a cocked hat and tunic as soon as he can walk. What I have seen here has given me the courage to defy my family name and retire from the lists with a clear conscience. As I said earlier, we once had the ridiculous airs of inexperience and fine distinctions of honour and integrity that made us behave like arrogant fools. All I want now is to live my life out in peace, and allow others to do the same. I will be ruled by my own conscience from now on.