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Spain · SpainYears ago, in Damascus, a Spanish colleague told me she’d been named after the Battle of Covadonga in northern Spain, where the Moors had tasted defeat around 720. The Arabs had never penetrated Asturias and Galicia, and the battle is often seen as the symbolic beginning of the Christian Reconquista — a centuries-long campaign by Christian kingdoms to wrest the Iberian Peninsula from Muslim rule, which lasted from 711 to 1492. What struck me ab…See the Story
Unmasking El Cid: Myth and the Shadows of Spain’s Muslim Past
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Vanuatu · VanuatuDistant, dreamy atolls have been the focus of an American love affair since James A. Michener first published his “Tales of the South Pacific” in 1947. “I wish I could tell you about the South Pacific,” his book begins: The way it actually was. The endless ocean. The infinite specks of coral we called islands. Coconut palms nodding gracefully toward the ocean. Reefs upon which waves broke into spray, and inner lagoons, lovely beyond description.…Read Article
Eight Decades On, Vanuatu Still Struggles With America’s World War II Legacy
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