Posted on 08/17/2008 2:13:47 PM PDT by forkinsocket
I 'spect that was true, especially in Paraguay in the last quarter of the 19th century. You could get five or six if you wanted. Even the Catholic Church allowed and encouraged polygamy.
“So she likes to dance with her victims before she kills them.”
A woman after my own heart....:)
Hmmmm....hubby is half Sicilian and half Portuguese.
[and damn straight he “married up”].....LOL
“Now, if someone can explain to me why so many white American men have a thing for Asian women. As a white American man myself, I never quite understood the appeal.”
Couldn’t tell you Clemenza, I like all men as long as they have some passion, so I never learned to appreciate a bias. Perhaps they hope they’re getting a 19th century submissive Asian woman. They never met Michelle Malkin did they?!!
No mention of the Welsh in this article.
“Now, if someone can explain to me why so many white American men have a thing for Asian women. As a white American man myself, I never quite understood the appeal. “
They look too delicate and childlike to me. I like European and Spanish-American women myself,
I see we share the same tastes.
After the Sicilians had enough of the Normans and their Angevin successors, Sicily revolted during the Sicilian Vespers in 1282, killed all the French and invited the King of Aragon to rule Sicily. Italians in general and southern Italians in particular, have no great love for the French. (I think that is an admirable quality they share with the Germans and English and most other people who live next to the stinking French.)I think the French came back again later before Sicily was united with Italy under Garibaldi.
Sicilian is actually a separate langauge, not a dialect of Italian, with loan words from Greek and Arabic and other languages and its own grammatical style.
Personally, knowing many Americans of Sicilian extraction myself, they don’t look like Arabs or North Africans at all. A lot of them look like Greeks, European Spaniards, Italians or perhaps Cretans. Some of them do have lighter features - probably the Norman-Angevin influence.
Trying to trace European backgrounds is difficult as most people moved around quite more in the past than we thought they did. I guess during the Feudal Period and after the rise of nation-states, the mobility of populations diminished.
After viewing your webpage I have to agree. I think we both suffer from insomnia too.
Cymry.
“Welsh” is an Anglo-Saxonism for “Foreigner” - rather ironic in that the Celts preceeded the Anglo-Saxons in England.
What about the Picts?
What about them?
Some time ago they thought the Picts were a non-Indo_European people like the Basques or Etruscans. LAtely they think are another Celtic Group who were later absorbed by the Scots from Ireland. But so little is recorded in Pictish I wonder how they can draw any conclusions.
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