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Vote Sinaí Giménez

The Galician Obama, the Vigan Podemos…

M. Le Cossec is no longer standing.

Jingoistic poem celebrating the Battle of Vigo Bay (1702)

Half roasted Frenchmen, some o’er Gratings Broil’d/Do mix with Spaniards in the Sea parboil’d;

<a href='http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Battle_of_Vigo_bay_october_23_1702.jpg'>Zeeslag in de baai van Vigo</a>

Spanish airport traffic trends

Variation in air traffic numbers throws interesting light on Spain’s problems as it plunges into recession.

How can Galicia be a nation if you can’t get there from Brussels?

Centre-periphery logistics and nationhood.

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  • Nicholas Barrington: The caves of Mendip (1957) £31.50
  • Launch of the Queen Elizabeth in the presence of Their Majesties The King & Queen at the yard of John Brown & Co. Ltd., Clydebank, Tuesday, September 27, 1938 (1938) £31.50
  • Oliver Goldsmith, Washington Irving: A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, 2 of 2 vols (1846) £117.00
  • Mrs. Brassey: A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam'. Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months (1879) £135.00
  • Leonard Woolley: Ur excavations Vol 4 the early periods (1956) £225.00

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